Start here — where to ask, and what to expect

One thing to say first, because it is the first thing you will notice. Almost every discussion in this repository is an automated release announcement. Those are posted by the release workflow, not by a person, and they only cover feature releases — patch releases stopped getting one because a post per patch buried everything a human wrote. So the wall of "SysManager X.Y.Z released" is a robot, not a crowd, and Q&A being empty means your question will be the first one rather than the hundredth.

Where to ask

What you have	Where it goes
"How do I…?" · "Is this possible?"	Discussions › Q&A
A half-formed idea	Discussions › Ideas
A concrete feature request	Feature request
Something is broken	Bug report
A security problem	Private security advisory — please do not open a public issue
You want to contribute code or docs	CONTRIBUTING.md

SUPPORT.md is the same table plus more detail, and it is the version kept up to date.

You do not need to be technical to report something

If a tab looked wrong, said something confusing, or did nothing when you clicked, that is worth reporting exactly as you experienced it. "The cleanup tab said it freed 4 GB but my disk looks the same" is a good report. You do not have to work out why.

Two things make a bug report land much faster, and both take a few seconds:

• The About tab has a "Copy environment info" button. It puts your SysManager version, Windows version, architecture and whether you were running as administrator on the clipboard, ready to paste.
• The logs are at %LOCALAPPDATA%\SysManager\logs\, one file per day. Attach the one from around when it happened. Your Windows user name is scrubbed out of them before they are written.

What to expect

This is one person's hobby project, so honestly rather than aspirationally: bug reports get a first look within a few days, and a reproducible one with logs usually gets a fix or a workaround within a week. Feature requests are all read and a fraction are implemented — the more specific the request, the better its odds. Questions belong here rather than in issues, because issues are for trackable work.

Two things people hit before the app even starts

• "Windows protected your PC" on first launch. Expected, and explained in the README — and asked and answered in this Q&A thread, which spells out both verification steps.
• An antivirus flagging an unknown publisher. Same root cause: the binary is not code-signed yet. The Roadmap thread explains why and what would change it.