The drive combobox on my TC stopped working: when I pick a drive (different from the one in the file windows) the letter in the combobox changes, but the file windows does not until I press Enter.
The same in the the Save/Load settings combobox of the Multi-rename tool: to activate the setting after the combobox choice I've to press Enter.
I know this is NOT a bug in TC because the same TC on another PC works perfectly.
I use a Portable version, this is why I said 'the same TC'.
The problem is on PC with WinXP sp3, Intel Pentium III @ 2.40GHz with 2.00 GB of RAM.
The other PC of my test is a PIII 500 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, WinXP sp3 and TC has no problems (!!).
I tried TC with nothing running, but nothing changed.
Forgive me, I hope I'm non too off topic, but this is very annoying and I don't know what to do.
Thank you and sorry for my English!
The drive combobox on my TC stopped working
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This problem is most probably caused by a badly implemented keyboard or mouse hook (system wide), which doesn't let all Windows messages through, or in wrong order.
Keyboard hooks may be used by:
- secure password entry software (in fact, TC uses one itself in the master password dialog)
- remote control/scripting software
- keyloggers (malware)
Keyboard hooks may be used by:
- secure password entry software (in fact, TC uses one itself in the master password dialog)
- remote control/scripting software
- keyloggers (malware)
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Thank you very much!
With your advice I found that was my FolderPopups (I modified it, so it was only MY fault) that caused the problem, so I changed it and now everything is OK.
My debug mistake was that running my version of FP, it messed the system and closing it left the problem. When you said 'hook' I realized that for the tests I had to reboot the PC every time, so I found it.
Thank you again!
And you already were my hero, for your TC ad for what you said in an older message ("There are absolutely no problems compiling for Windows 95 - Windows 10, except when using the latest Microsoft compilers which use new functions on purpose to block out older Windows versions")...
Ciao!
With your advice I found that was my FolderPopups (I modified it, so it was only MY fault) that caused the problem, so I changed it and now everything is OK.
My debug mistake was that running my version of FP, it messed the system and closing it left the problem. When you said 'hook' I realized that for the tests I had to reboot the PC every time, so I found it.
Thank you again!
And you already were my hero, for your TC ad for what you said in an older message ("There are absolutely no problems compiling for Windows 95 - Windows 10, except when using the latest Microsoft compilers which use new functions on purpose to block out older Windows versions")...
Ciao!