List of changes (version 9.50 - 9.51)

List of changes (version 9.50 - 9.51) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 9.50 until the release of version 9.51. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 9.50 - 9.51)

(25.03.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 final

• (25.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: With some preview handlers, a minimized Lister couldn't be restored any more by clicking on its taskbar icon (32/64)
• (24.03.20) Fixed: Edit comment (Ctrl+Z) didn't work with option "DOS charset" when the current encoding wasn't "Western" (32/64)
• (24.03.20) Fixed: Lister: Disallow Explorer preview (mode '8') for font files due to a security hole in Windows font handler. Can be enabled manually after Microsoft releases a patch via wincmd.ini [Configuration] FontPreview=1 or FontPreview=2 for only Windows 10 1607 or newer, where fonts are loaded outside the kernel (32/64)
• (23.03.20) Fixed: Find files: Ignore last (incorrect) semicolon in "Search in" field when searching in multiple paths, e.g. c:\path1;d:\path2; (32/64)
• (23.03.20) Fixed: Files - Create Checksum File(s): When creating separate checksum files per file or folder, skip all files in subfolders which have the same extension as the created checksum, e.g. create sha256 checksum -> skip all with extension .sha256 (32/64)
• (23.03.20) Fixed: Command line, CM_LIST and CM_LISTINTERNALONLY: Delete trailing spaces from name (32/64)
• (23.03.20) Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ZIP archive: Remove warning about stuck ESC key, which was shown when closing warning about read-only ZIP archive with ESC (32/64)
• (23.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Preview could hang when holding down '8', 'n' or 'p' key (32/64)
• (20.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Hotkey '8' invoked switch to Explorer preview twice (32/64)
• (20.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Open Quick view panel and separate Lister with Explorer preview each, close Lister so Quick view panel gets focus -> hotkeys like ESC no longer worked (32/64)
• (19.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Open 2 Lister windows with Explorer preview, close one so the other gets the focus -> hotkeys like ESC no longer worked (32/64)

(18.03.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 6 (RC6)

• (18.03.20) Fixed: Configuration - Options - Packer: Some >> buttons had no bottom border on high DPI screens (64)
• (18.03.20) Fixed: Line breaks in comments were lost when changing an OEM/DOS descript.ion comment via Files - Change attributes (32/64)
• (18.03.20) Fixed: Internal 7zip unpacker would sometimes request the same password multiple times (32/64)
• (17.03.20) Fixed: Main program: Prevent privilege escalation by putting fake dll in program directory, via sspicli.dll (64-bit only), winsta.dll, version.dll, winmm.dll, mpr.dll, winspool.drv. Instead, load them via LoadLibrary directly from System32 (32/64)
• (17.03.20) Fixed: Installer: Prevent privilege escalation (found by vulnary.com, Hacktivity Labs) by putting fake dll in installer directory, via sspicli.dll (64-bit only), winsta.dll (Windows bug, the installer doesn't use these dlls directly) (32/64)
• (17.03.20) Fixed: Right to left language: Fixed alignment in custom columns (if left aligned) and free/total space shown in drive buttonbar (32/64)
• (17.03.20) Fixed: Regional settings, "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support": Configuration - Options - Font examples were wrong (32/64)
• (17.03.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Configuration - Options - Plugins - File system plugins - Configure: Line distance too narrow on higher DPI screens (64)
• (16.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Support shortcut keys n, p and 1..8 (32/64)
• (16.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Use WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook instead of WH_KEYBOARD, so tckeyhandler.dll/tckeyhandler64.dll is no longer needed (32/64)
• (16.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Call SetRect immediately after SetWindow to handle bug in Microsoft Word preview handler sized incorrectly (32/64)
• (15.03.20) Fixed: Main window hanging when dragging URLs from Firefox to it. Reason: Firefox doesn't support synchronous drop -> implement asynchronous drop (32/64)
• (13.03.20) Fixed: Find files: Going through the list of stored searches without loading one reset the "Search in subdirectories" value to "all" (32/64)
• (13.03.20) Fixed: Name of settings files was changed incorrectly if the registry contained just the file name (e.g. just wincmd.ini) (32/64)
• (12.03.20) Fixed: Installer: The field "Product name" was not set (32/64)

(11.03.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 5 (RC5)

• (11.03.20) Fixed: If the current user profile directory contains characters from a different codepage and 8.3 names are disabled, set default ini file dir to c:\totalcmd, with c the same drive as the user directory (32/64)
• (10.03.20) Fixed: Allow to install/uninstall/repair and use Total Commander even if the current user profile directory contains characters from a different codepage, as long as the disk has 8.3 names enabled (32/64)
• (09.03.20) Fixed: Intercept Ctrl+V and Shift+Insert to command line and current path edit when it doesn't contain plain text, to avoid crash due to a Windows bug (32/64)
• (09.03.20) Fixed: Multi-rename tool: button to load results for next step not adapted to dark mode or high DPI (32/64)
• (09.03.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Right click on vertical button bar: Dialog box to confirm hiding of vertical button bar not dark (32/64)

(04.03.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 4 (RC4)

• (04.03.20) Fixed: Find files: Using a list file wouldn't find all files any more when each line of the list contained a file name with wildcards (32/64)
• (04.03.20) Fixed: Find files: Regular expressions+DOS charset+ignore case didn't work (32/64)
• (04.03.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Redraw buttons when user presses a key in a dialog box while quick access letters aren't underlined (32/64)
• (04.03.20) Fixed: New option in regional settings "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support": Read both UTF-8 and ANSI values from wincmd.ini (32/64)
• (03.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Use IPreviewHandlerVisuals to set foreground and background colors of some preview handlers like font preview (32/64)
• (03.03.20) Fixed: Lister, Explorer preview: Improved stability, especially out of process like PDF (32/64)
• (03.03.20) Fixed: Overlapping components in FTP connection details dialog (64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Right to left language: Make all edit boxes and editable comboboxes left-aligned like in the 32-bit version (64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Right to left language: Show size unit to the left of the size field when it's not using English abbreviations (32/64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Right to left language, dark mode: Comboboxes with no edit part must be mirrored too (64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Right to left language: Some dialogs not mirrored correctly: Compare by content, Folder tabs - Show icons on tabs, Change button bar (upper listbox must not be mirrored!) (32/64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Quick search: Do not scale icon and text with DPI set by user in Configuration - Options - Font (32/64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: MessageBox dialogs (e.g. shown on Shift+F8) were not mirrored for right to left languages (32/64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Problems caused by new option in regional settings "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support": No more ANSI/OEM text support in compare by content, search function (32/64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Access violation in background transfer manager and background copy dialog (F5-Enter-Background) if program data was loaded above 4GB limit in memory (64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Mouse wheel no longer worked in path panel -> breadcrumb dropdown list (32)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Configure custom columns: Only the dialog size was restored, not the position (64)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Configuration - Options - Icons - Vertical: Don't select value of zero (32)
• (02.03.20) Fixed: Tab order in overwrite confirmation dialog incorrect (32)
• (01.03.20) Fixed: Ctrl+F FTP connections: Focus rectangle was drawn incorrectly with classic theme (64)
• (01.03.20) Fixed: Drag file from inside archive to Chrome would sometimes cause an access violation (64)
• (01.03.20) Fixed: Switch from dark to light mode while FTP connection was active -> combobox for transfer mode was still dark (32/64)
• (01.03.20) Fixed: Better automatic color conversion for colors by file type from light to dark mode (32/64)
• (28.02.20) Fixed: Problems caused by new option in regional settings "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support": No more ANSI/OEM text support in ZIP, FTP and Lister (32/64)

(26.02.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 3 (RC3)

• (26.02.20) Fixed: Find files, load old search via LOADSEARCH <saved name> which didn't contain a stored directory -> set start directory to current directory (64)
• (26.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Access violation in various dialogs using custom checkbox controls if program data was loaded above 4GB limit in memory (64)
• (26.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode, classic theme: Find files, plugin fields had wrong font (32)
• (25.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode, FTP connect: wrong background color of focused item when using classic theme (64)
• (25.02.20) Fixed: Compare by content: keyboard shortcuts in context menu were not working any more (64)
• (25.02.20) Added: Lister: Use Uniscribe for all languages, even when not needed, by setting wincmd.ini [Lister] Uniscribe=2 (32/64)
• (24.02.20) Fixed: ESC and TAB didn't work in Lister with Explorer preview, use tckeyhandler.dll/tckeyhandler64.dll for temporary WH_KEYBOARD hook. A global hook is used only when the preview is loaded in a separate process (32/64)
• (24.02.20) Fixed: Still access violation in main menu/folder tabs if program data was loaded above 4GB limit in memory (64)
• (24.02.20) Fixed: Search function, load previous search parameters: No preview for "compressed" and "encrypted" options (32/64)
• (24.02.20) Fixed: ZIP packer: Attributes "pinned" and "not content indexed" were not preserved when modifying a ZIP archive (32/64)
• (23.02.20) Fixed: Search filter dialog (e.g. for colors by file type): When loading existing filter, the plugin edit box was either invisible or too small (32/64)
• (23.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode, Lister: wrong background color (except behind text) when it was different from the default (32/64)
• (23.02.20) Fixed: cm_commandbrowser: Shift+Double click or Ctrl+Shift+C on a command/Shift+Click OK no longer worked on Windows 9x/ME (32)
• (23.02.20) Fixed: No focus rectangle was drawn in various listboxes (colors by file type, languages, multi-rename tool, FTP connect) (64)

(19.02.20) Release Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 2 (RC2)

• (19.02.20) Fixed: Renamed release from 9.50a to 9.51, because the beta test is taking longer (32/64)
• (19.02.20) Fixed: Custom columns view: when not using folder tabs, the column headers had no left border (64)
• (19.02.20) Fixed: F5 copy, click on "Background": 0% had wrong font as long as it stayed at 0 (32/64)
• (18.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Border around tab control in search or system information had wrong color (highlight instead of line color) (64)
• (18.02.20) Fixed: Attribute 0x80000 used by OneDrive for files always kept on that computer was lost when renaming (32/64)
• (18.02.20) Fixed: Quick search in a listbox (e.g. main settings): no more timeout for typed search string (32)
• (18.02.20) Fixed: Help file would get locked when opened with a page other than the main index (e.g. Keyboard shortcuts) -> use HH_DISPLAY_TOPIC instead of HH_HELP_CONTEXT (only works on Windows Vista and newer) (32/64)
• (17.02.20) Fixed: Access violation in main menu/folder tabs/uninstaller if program data was loaded above 4GB limit in memory (64)
• (17.02.20) Fixed: Updated tc7z.dll/tc7z64.dll and tcmdLZMA.dll/TCLZMA64.DLL to 7zip/lzma version 1900. The former is used for unpacking 7z archives, the latter for lzma+xz-packed ZIP files (32/64)
• (17.02.20) Fixed: Some rare zip archives packed with "shrink" method couldn't be unpacked correctly, resulting in a CRC error (32/64)
• (17.02.20) Fixed: Search files, Feed to Listbox, switch to Brief mode -> division by zero when scrolling through list (32/64)
• (17.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Try to not show white background in resizeable dialogs (e.g. multi-rename tool) while they are loading (32/64)
• (16.02.20) Added: New USB drive overlay icons for 125% and 150% scale (32/64)
• (16.02.20) Fixed: Scaling of USB drive overlay wrong when using uneven scaling factor like 125% (64)
• (16.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode, synchronize dirs: font color of inplace rename edit box wrong (32/64)
• (16.02.20) Fixed: Windows 10, context menu: "Share" menu item didn't work in search results (32/64)
• (16.02.20) Fixed: Couldn't enter subdirectories in archives storing entire URLs, e.g. https://www.ghisler.com/index.htm (reason: dual slashes) (32/64)
• (14.02.20) Fixed: New field [S] (File size) only worked in multi-rename tool, not in F7 new folder and Shift+F4 new file (32/64)

(12.02.20) Release Total Commander 9.50a release candidate 1 (RC1)

• (12.02.20) Fixed: FTP server: Support longer Unicode names, especially for Asian languages with multiple bytes per character (32/64)
• (12.02.20) Fixed: Access violation accessing drives mounted via RaiDrive pointing to a WebDAV server, the drive reported an impossibly large free/total space (32)
• (12.02.20) Added: Dark mode: Open help file named totalcmddark.chm if it exists in the same location as totalcmd.chm (32/64)
• (11.02.20) Fixed: Changing dark mode colors via main settings sometimes lost border around main window file lists (32/64)
• (11.02.20) Fixed: Search in 7z archives with internal 7zip unpacker was much slower than extracting the same archive (32/64)
• (11.02.20) Fixed: Changed default of HistoryCut option from 0 to 1 until a better solution is found (32/64)
• (10.02.20) Fixed: "Mark newer, hide same files": Access violation when using this function while a quick search filter was active (32/64)
• (10.02.20) Added: "Visit Totalcmd's Website" now directly goes to the German/French localized Web pages (32/64)
• (10.02.20) Fixed: Installer couldn't write to "c:\Program files" or other privileged locations for users with limited accounts, even when requesting admin rights (32/64)
• (10.02.20) Fixed: Directory history wasn't stored correctly when HistoryLenStored was set (32/64)
• (09.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode, auto-complete: Make scrollbar dark on Windows 10 1809 and newer (32/64)
• (09.02.20) Fixed: Dark mode: Auto-complete was flickering heavily on Windows XP (32)
• (09.02.20) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown to jump to next/previous directory didn't set focus on header (32/64)
• (09.02.20) Fixed: Create CRC checksums: Do not add UTF-8 byte order marker to beginning of checksum file when using "Unix format" (32/64)
• (07.02.20) Fixed: Lister: Explorer method (8) didn't work with Adobe Acrobat Reader, fixed for 64-bit only so far (64)
• (07.02.20) Fixed: Main configuration dialog no longer had an icon in the title bar after changing language to English (internal) and clicking on Apply (32)
• (07.02.20) Fixed: Ctrl+Q on lnk file: Only follow the link if it points to a file, not to a directory (32/64)
• (07.02.20) Fixed: Couldn't go to subfolders in archives where the file name was stored with full path and drive letter, e.g. c:\path\file.txt (32/64)