BitDefender Free 1.0.6.12 context menu and TC

[eL_PuSHeR]

Hello.

When I right-click on a drive letter from windows explorer I get an context menu entry "scan with Bitdefender". But when I click on a drive under Total Commander I don't get that option.

Any ideas?

[Dalai]

TC 32 bit on Windows 64 bit? Look under the X64 entry in TC. If it's not in there, rename totalcmd.exe to Explorer.exe and try again; there are a lot of threads about this issue which can affect any shell extension.

Regards
Dalai

[Horst.Epp]

Bitdefender only shows its context menu if called from Explorer.exe.
As Dalai said run a copy of TC renamed to Explorer.exe

[eL_PuSHeR]

Thanks for the tips.

Best regards.

[CoolWater]

Since this is a long lasting topic, maybe ghisler can something do about this. SC had to face the same issues, the author found a solution (translated):
"shell extensions determine the calling process name via GetModuleFileName. You have to care for the extension to receive the correct (explorer.exe) process name.". So there must be a way to send a "fake" process name to the calling shell extension.

HTH
CoolWater

[Horst.Epp]

Since this is a long lasting topic, maybe ghisler can something do about this. SC had to face the same issues, the author found a solution (translated):
"shell extensions determine the calling process name via GetModuleFileName. You have to care for the extension to receive the correct (explorer.exe) process name.". So there must be a way to send a "fake" process name to the calling shell extension.

HTH
CoolWater

TC is not reponsible for strange coding of other tools.
TC context menu may be build by many different extensions
and TC doesn't even know which are present.
There may even be extensions which should know that they are called from TC.
If you don't like Bitdefenders strange logic use another antivirus tool.

[CoolWater]

2Horst.Epp

i was not thinking of a general replacement of tc's GetModuleFileName but only for BitDefender/Norton.

[ghisler(Author)]

So I should subclass/replace GetModuleFileName in my process, and return Explorer.exe when asked for the TC module name? This is quite risky, it may break other programs...

[CoolWater]

2ghisler(Author)

as I stated above, this should be done only for BitDefender/Norton.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, but TC does not load these by itself - it calls a single Windows function to load the context menu (via OLE2).

[Horst.Epp]

Yes, but TC does not load these by itself - it calls a single Windows function to load the context menu (via OLE2).

Thats what I said
There is no problem to use the workaround with TC as Explorer.exe.
Its only needed if one wants a secure delete.