Total commander crashing while displaying right click menu

[mirkokg]

OK here is my problem. When right clicking on any file Total commander crashes, after third or fourth right click, while displaying a right click menu.

This is an error it displays:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TOTALCMD.EXE
Application Version: 7.5.0.0
Application Timestamp: 2a425e19
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18215
Fault Module Timestamp: 49953395
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0004a473
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: b081
Additional Information 2: 15d1fe40cfa37a977abf4f4da1e07a36
Additional Information 3: 290c
Additional Information 4: 67565071bb6855eea91ba4a023c4ded2

I'm having the same problem with total commander stable version. I suspect that the cause of the issue is a strange option which was suddenly added to my right click menu:

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[Lefteous]

http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Right_click_menu_%28context_menu%29_crash

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[HolgerK]

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4517/menun.png

Menu entry "Defragment..." seems to be O&O Defrag!

See also:

http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=169530#169530
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=170693#170693

Regards
Holger

[mirkokg]

Thanks,

I disabled all of the entries I don't use and that fixed the problem.

I hope this could be fixed also in total commander to avoid similar problems in the future.

Regards,
Mirko

[Clo]

2mirkokg

Hello !

• TC can't prevent other programmes to install crappy shell extensions…

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Claude
Clo

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to the English forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

[mirkokg]

Not to prevent installation, to prevent tc from crashing from those extensions.

To catch the exception or what else is needed to prevent the crash...

I even wasn't totally aware of the crashing reason, only TC was influenced, other programs worked normally, so it looks like bug to me.

Like we say in Serbian: "Bolje spreciti nego leciti" (It is better to prevent than to cure).

[Samuel]

Not to prevent installation, to prevent tc from crashing from those extensions.

To catch the exception or what else is needed to prevent the crash...

2ghisler(Author)
I dont know if its possible, but if the exception could be caught and Tc would give an error message like:
"Probably one of the shell extensions caused an error. Try disable them"

This would prevent many users from posting such posts as this.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC does try to catch the exception when the menu is created. Unfortunately it's often not possible to catch it once the menu is shown.