Total Commander Error

[Danny79]

I open Total Commander and after 5 second appears this message:

"The TOTALCMD executable file is corrupted, possible VIRUS!
Totalcmd will close.Please run a virus scanner as soon as possible!"


I scannded my PC but visrus I don't have.The PC is OK.
I don't understand this.
Can hep me in this problem?

Thank you.

sorry for my bad english.

[sqa_wizard]

Total Commander has an internal checksum check to detect any modifications.

The message means, your TC version is modified ! Download and install it again.

[ghisler(Author)]

This can have several reasons:
- A new virus which is unknown to your scanner
- The program was modified in any way, by an icon editor, patch tool etc.
- You have a bad memory chip (RAM)
- Total Commander doesn't have read access to its directory
- Parts of an older Wincmd version were still in memory

Recently a user had the same problem after moving his PC. When he checked, the RAM module wasn't properly locked in its slot, so he was getting errors from time to time...

[jenelia]

Every time I start Total Commander, I'm getting the error message "out of system resources". After that, Total Commander runs normally!
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[GeroZ]

I know that this is an old, old thread, but I simply have to add my two cents here:

I'm having similar trouble since 7.50 - 7.50a didn't fix it. Usually TCMD is run with limited user privileges, and everything is fine. When necessary, I start it through a "runas" script with admin privileges. I've been doing this since literally ages, and this never was a problem.

On Win XP Pro I use

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%windir%\system32\runas.exe /user:Administrator "C:\Programme\Total Commander\TOTALCMD.EXE"

On Win2k Pro I use

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%windir%\system32\runas.exe /profile /user:Administrator "C:\Programme\Total Commander\TOTALCMD.EXE"

Guess what: Since TCMD 7.5 the Win2k machine reports that the executable file is corrupted. ... Needless to say: The regular TMCD running with limited privileges has never reported this. And no problem either doing the same thing on the WinXP box.

If I log out of my non-admin user account entirely and log back in as Administrator, TCMD is tame - nothing about a corrupted executable. I've checked the .exe against various virus scanners, on different machines and online, and it's obviously clean.

... What can I do against that?

[MVV]

Don't know about 2K/XP, but in W7 TC with admin rights works fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC shows this error if it cannot access its own program file totalcmd.exe for some reason. Maybe the user rights are set in a way which disallow the admin to read the file?

[starwars1999]

I also have this problem - the only difference is the start of the program. I use "machmichadmin" by heise (an extented version of runas).

My solution:
First start an admin-shell (cmd or whatever)
Change the working directory to "%programfiles%\totalcmd" (e.g "cd c:\programme\totalcmd")
Start TC (totalcmd.exe)

No error message anymore