Greg Klanderman <greg(a)alphatech.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: It's probably a side-effect of eliminating the files they were previously dumping. If your menu code is loading files, you've done something wrong. Look at how it is done in eudc: ;;;###autoload (if (and (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (featurep 'menubar) (not (featurep 'eudc)) (not (featurep 'infodock))) (add-submenu '("Tools") '("Directory Search" ["Load Hotlist of Servers" eudc-load-eudc t] ["New Server" eudc-set-server t] ["---" nil nil] ["Query with Form" eudc-query-form t] ["Expand Inline Query" eudc-expand-inline t] ["---" nil nil] ["Get Email" eudc-get-email t] ["Get Phone" eudc-get-phone t]))) You need to ensure that menubars are compiled in and you are running in vanilla XEmacs (and not InfoDock).