Help please! Problem with right clicking.

[Zerox]

I can't right click on any folders/files in TC. When I perform a right click action I hear a sound but the menu that I usually get from right clicking doesn't show up. I tried reinstalling TC and reinstalling windows as well but that didn't fix the problem. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[SanskritFritz]

1. Do you have the setting Options / Operations / Mouse selection mode :Left mouse button (Windows standard)
enabled?

2. If yes, does it work in Explorer? Did you reinstall windows by formatting the drive, i mean fresh istall from scratch? If you just reinstall over an exiting instance, almost all setting will be intact.

[Flint]

A small addition to the 1st point of SanskritFritz:
even if you has Right mouse button in these settings, you can call context menu with long right click (press right mouse button and hold at about 1 second). I use this feature for long time, it's convenient as short right-click I use for selection (like in NC).

[Zerox]

Heya thank you for answering my questions.

SanskritFritz: Yes left mouse button (windows standard) is enabled and yes I reinstalled windows completely...

For now I guess I will stick with the NC operation method coz the windows standard method doesn't always work. Regardless, I appreciate the help you guys have given!

[Clo]

2Zerox
Hello !

the windows standard method doesn't always work

¤ The left-click method works perfectly in TC; I use it only for years, in first in the 16-bit version a while ago… Now, under Win 98 SE and XP-Pro.
* Whether you can't use the right-click in TC getting an alarm sound, -although you reinstalled all -, it should mean that you have a damaged version of TC… or of Windows.
* Please, download a new fresh TC from the TC-site, and test again. - Then, let's know what happens

  Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[wanderer]

SanskritFritz: Yes left mouse button (windows standard) is enabled and yes I reinstalled windows completely...

Hi there.

1. I assume you used the default .ini file and you did not keep an old one.

2. Does your right mouse button work in other applications? Perhaps it has a problem or you have installed an application that does something with the right mousebutton?

[ghisler(Author)]

This usually means that you have installed a context menu shell extension which works only with Explorer. Explanation: Total Commander doesn't create the context menu by itself, but asks Explorer to do it (through OLE2). Some (rare) shell extensions try to access the Explorer window when the shell extenstion is loaded, which fails from Total Commander because there is no Explorer window! The only solution is to remove the shell extension from the context menu, or maybe ask the maker of the shell extension to fix the problem.

You can find these extensions in the registry, usually under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
or
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

To disable them, first export the registry key to a *.reg file (so you can re-add the extensions at a later time), then remove them one after the other and re-try with Total Commander whether the right click works again.