Total Commander Error
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Total Commander Error
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.
"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.
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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...
- 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...
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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
On Win2k Pro I use
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?
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"
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%windir%\system32\runas.exe /profile /user:Administrator "C:\Programme\Total Commander\TOTALCMD.EXE"
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?
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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?
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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
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