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tcmadmin is no longer work

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Hello. I use TC 7.57a-32bit for a long time. Some time ago one feature stops to work: TCMADMIN.EXE. If I wish to delete some file from an user account, TC tell me "Error file cannot be deleted!", and I press "As Admin" button to enter Admin's login and password. Today instead of window with login prompt an error message occurs:
[img]http://i70.fastpic.ru/thumb/2015/0602/aa/df07ca47c7c01aed5c95ef26db3f4baa.jpeg[/img].

Is any ay to find out why this happens and fix it?
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Time to download the actual version of TC (8.51a) and install it over.
Ther is no reason to stay with such old version.
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Horst.Epp wrote:Time to download the actual version of TC (8.51a) and install it over.
Ther is no reason to stay with such old version.
8.51a - Still doesn't work. Other Ideas?
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OS version and architecture?
Can you view tcadmin.exe contents by F3?
Can you start it directly?
Try TC with clean configuration: TOTALCMD.exe /i=new.ini
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Windows XP SP3 32 bit Russian
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Yes (without parameters - warning message appears "This program is internal to Total Commander. Do not call it directly!", If I place something as parameter, process appears in task manager)
clean configuration: the same error

File name Size Date Time Attr
------------------------------------- --------------- ---------- -------- ----
r:\Static\Utils\totalcmd\TCMADMIN.EXE 75,776 30.04.2014 08:51.10 -a--

total files 1 total size 75,776

MD5:
78fce67bf5d98a2314ccdf595bb3cf8d *TCMADMIN.EXE
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Is your drive R: a (mapped) network drive?

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Dalai wrote:Is your drive R: a (mapped) network drive?
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No it is extended NTFS partition of primary hard drive
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Can your administrator user access this drive/directory, i.e. is access allowed in the NTFS permissions?

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I gain full access to TC folder (all files and subfolders) for user. The same error.
Can your administrator user access this drive/directory
Admin has full access, but I cant test TCMADMIN.EXE under admin (admin already have all privileges).
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Are you sure the administrator's credentials (username and password) are correct? Can you run any other program, e.g. TC itself, with these credentials?

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Dalai wrote:Are you sure the administrator's credentials (username and password) are correct? Can you run any other program, e.g. TC itself, with these credentials?

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Login and password are correct, TCMADMIN.EXE does not allow me to enter even login, an error message appears first (see my first post). I am not sure if TCMADMIN.EXE ever started if I press "As admin" button in TC (the error message appears, no TCMADMIN.EXE process in task manager). If I start TCMADMIN.EXE direty, process appears in taskman.
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nick7inc wrote:[...] TCMADMIN.EXE does not allow me to enter even login, an error message appears first (see my first post).
Yes, of course not. That wasn't the question. The question is: Can you start any other program with the same credentials you supply for the "As admin" function (=tcmadmin.exe)?

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I start TC, found TCMADMIN.EXE, right-click on it, select "Start from user", Enter Login and password, then got message from TCMADMIN.EXE. AS I understand TCMADMIN.EXE starts both on user and admin account from file pannel, but can not start from "As admin" button. May be TCMADMIN.EXE in the last case starts with special flag or different API function?
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Of course tcmadmin.exe shows that message! But that doesn't matter.

OK, I'll summarize what we know so far:
  • You can view tcmadmin.exe's contents as user
  • You can launch the file
  • It's not launched from a network drive
  • The permissions allow the execution for the administrator
  • It seems that the credentials are correct, though I'm not sure
So, I'm out of ideas. It's a real pity that TC doesn't state the exact reason as to why it can't launch tcmadmin.exe. That would make the search for the culprit a lot easier.

One last idea: Use Process Monitor to analyze what goes wrong. Use a filter for "totalcmd.exe" and "tcmadmin.exe".

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Agree, Process Monitor may help here.
I can only repeat my unanswered suggestion regarding starting TC with clean INI.
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