Bug: Right Click

[Boofo]

When I right click a file and hold it down, it will bring up the menu just fine. If I do that to another file when I am done with the first one, it closes TC instead of bringing up the menu. Has anyone else run into this problem at all? I have "use right mouse button (as in NC)" enabled, by the way, if that has anything to do with anything.

[ghisler(Author)]

This is a typical crash caused by a badly written context menu extension. I have described in other threads how you can get rid of them.

[Boofo]

I found the thread where you explain about the WinRAR one. Is there another thread that shows how to get rid of them? Or were you referring to programming them out?

[ghisler(Author)]

Here is my standard text:

1. Start regedit.exe
2. and go to the key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
In this key, all shell extensions are listed which work with all files. The * is a real star, it does not mean 'any key' here!
3. Choose "Registry" - "export registry", so you can revert your changes later. Choose to export only the selected branch.
4. Now delete one context menu handler after the other, and then try each time in Total Commander whether the context menu works again. This way you should find the defective extension.
5. When you have found it, you need to double click the .reg-file created above to restore all shell extensions, and then delete only the malfunctioning extension.

Please let me know which extension causes this crash!

[Boofo]

I found it! It is the shell extention for a program called "Power Drawers" . Is there a way to just disable it in TC without having to disable it in the rest of Windows?

[Hacker]

Is there a way to just disable it in TC without having to disable it in the rest of Windows?

Don't think so...

Roman

[Boofo]

Then we have a major dilemma going on. I use Power Drawers almost as much as I do TC.

[sqa_wizard]

Well, report the bug to the author of "Power Drawers" ...

[Boofo]

And what do I tell them? I'm not a programmer. I don't know what to tell them from a programmer's point of view.

[TucknDar]

And what do I tell them? I'm not a programmer. I don't know what to tell them from a programmer's point of view.

You just tell them what the problem is, and refer them to this thread, so that if they listen to users' bug-reports, they should try to fix this one.

[ghisler(Author)]

Write him that his shell extension causes other programs than Explorer to crash. We had a similar problem with WinRAR recently, and the author was very helpful to fix the problem. The error caused not only Total Commander to crash, but also several other file managers. In this special case, it was caused by a bad implementation of thread variables by Borland C++.

[Boofo]

Can I quote your message here? It might help.

[SanskritFritz]

Can I quote your message here? It might help

Send them the link for this very thread:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=2420
so they might read the whole story.

[havanna]

2 Boofo
Man, I just wanted to have a look at this prog - on the download page my scanner told me there was a backdoor called psychward.
Could be a false alert after all, but you might want to check with symantec eg (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.psychward.html)

[Boofo]

2 Boofo
Man, I just wanted to have a look at this prog - on the download page my scanner told me there was a backdoor called psychward.
Could be a false alert after all, but you might want to check with symantec eg (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.psychward.html)

I have been using this program for 2 years now and have never run into this. I run Norton's Anti-Virus and have never had an alert with this. I know it can be set for auto-updates (which I do have it set for) but as for any viruses or trojans, I haven't seen any. I use Diamond's TDS-3 trojan scanner and it has never reported any and I consider this scanner the "800 lb. Gorilla of Trojan Scanners". Thanks for the heads up, though.