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x64/x32 menu confusion

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Hello,

Just reinstalled Total Commander "x32+x64" flavour on a new system and I was wondering where the X32 context sub-menu had disappeared when running the 64-bit version.

Finally, after messing with the wincmd.ini I found out that adding a line with x64menu=1 would restore this X32 sub-menu... not really intuitive! (especially on top of x32/x64 menus being separated)

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[Configuration]
x64menu=1
Hopefully this will help anyone else looking for that.

That would be more convenient in the settings IMHO, instead of the user having to guess new entries in the .ini file (and guessing where this ini file is located in the first place).

Also, some context entries are missing, noticeably the Norton 360 "Scan now". The two other entries for this program are there though, "Add to backup" / "Exclude from backup", so it's weird the most important one is missing. As a result, I have to launch the Explorer each time I want to scan a file. Any idea why some context menus in Explorer are missing in TC?
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As I remember, the reason why this option is in INI only is that 32-bit extensions are rare in 64-bit OS so needed only for some of us.
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Re: x64/x32 menu confusion

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Scythal wrote:Also, some context entries are missing, noticeably the Norton 360 "Scan now". The two other entries for this program are there though, "Add to backup" / "Exclude from backup", so it's weird the most important one is missing. As a result, I have to launch the Explorer each time I want to scan a file. Any idea why some context menus in Explorer are missing in TC?
Just rename Totalcmd64.exe to Explorer.exe, because Norton seems to prevent to show the context menu in any other process than Explorer.exe.

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=276715

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Re: x64/x32 menu confusion

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HolgerK wrote:Just rename Totalcmd64.exe to Explorer.exe, because Norton seems to prevent to show the context menu in any other process than Explorer.exe.

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=276715

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Nice one, thanks! Norton is such a paranoid tool really...
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Re: x64/x32 menu confusion

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HolgerK wrote:Just rename Totalcmd64.exe to Explorer.exe, because Norton seems to prevent to show the context menu in any other process than Explorer.exe.

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=276715
http://www.speedproject.de/2014/03/17/speedcommander-15-20 (German) wrote:Ich habe dann eine Möglichkeit gefunden, wie man Norton Internet Security auch ohne Umbenennen zur Anzeige des Eintrags überreden kann.
Thus, there is some hack that avoids the renaming...
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Unfortunately he doesn't write how he hacked Norton to make it work with other file managers...
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Yes this would be interesting. I was thinking how this could be done but came to no solution.
But at least he got aware of this issue from here.
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Maybe he is doing what I do with x64 submenu: Start hidden app, let it create context menu, then pass it to the main app - and name that hidden app Explorer.exe.
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You are probably right. I was thinking of a possibility without starting a new process named Explorer.exe.
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Or he checks if Norton tools are installed and adds it to custom context menu.
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But what command? These are not just calls to a program, they are OLE calls to get the menu items - and OLE calls to execute them.
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