Miss right mouse button menus in TC 64-bit

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Miss right mouse button menus in TC 64-bit

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Hi everybody,
I have a little question: :-)
I installed a software which added some commands in the right mouse button menu in windows explorer, but those commands are not present when I right-click a file inside TC (8.51a x64).

Is there an easy way to have the commands activated also inside TC or there's no way to do it ?

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Some shell extensions work in Explorer only. There was discussed a case when renaming TOTALCMD.exe to EXPLORER.exe helped.

What exactly software have you installed?
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Hi,
I installed a software associated to an hardware cryptographic key (independent key pro).

What it seems to me strange is that usually I get those addons working both in explorer and in TC, but not this time, so I was thinking maybe to some
additional manual configuration on TC side...

Thanks for the reply.
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Are you using TC 32-bit on Windows 64-bit? If yes, the extension may be 64-bit only. Then it should appear in the "x64" submenu. But it's possible that it really only appears in Explorer. You can verify that: Run notepad.exe, open the "Save as" or "Open" dialog, and right click on a file. Does the menu item appear or not?
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Hi,
I'm using TC 8.52a x64 on Windows 7 64 bit.
I tried with notepad as you said and it doesn't appear on it too,
what does it mean ? No other program is enabled to use these functionalities ?

Thanks and bye,
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diabolik wrote:I'm using TC 8.52a x64 on Windows 7 64 bit.
Do you know/have something the others don't? ;)
I tried with notepad as you said and it doesn't appear on it too,
what does it mean ? No other program is enabled to use these functionalities ?
Yes, that's what it means. Some developers are so lazy that they don't want to test their shell extensions in other programs but Explorer. That's why the context menu stuff is only present there. If you want to have it in TC, you can rename totalcmd(64).exe to explorer.exe. However, the shell extension developers sometimes have a reason to hide the context menu entry: it may be unstable in other programs.

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Dalai wrote: Do you know/have something the others don't? ;)
Sure ! I just came back from the future :D :D

I tried renaming TC to explorer.exe, but again with no success,
so I think I have no other choices than write to the software developers,
even if I don't have much hope on this... :wink:

Thanks and bye,
Dk
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