Windows 10: Problem on deleting, TC freeze up.

[Apod42]

[quote="Apod42"]Facing exactly the same problem as OP. I run Total Commander 8.52a, on Windows 10 Pro.

When I try to delete a folder using F8, TC freezes. The folder is deleted, nonetheless. If I detele a folder using Shif+F8 everything is ok. If I delete a folder using right click and then Delete from the window all works ok.

Important: The problem does not appear if I log into Windows 10 using the hidden built-in administrator account! F8 on folders works just fine in this case.

Please anyone, any solutions?[/quote]

Running TC 64-bit.

[ghisler(Author)]

Please use Total Commander 32-bit until I find a solution. It doesn't seem to be affected. So far I couldn't reproduce the problem on Windows 10. I guess that it is caused by a bad Explorer extension which crashes when the delete thread ends.

[Пь&am]

I have the same problem with Windows 10 Pro (version 1511) and TC 8.52a 64 bit.

[ghisler(Author)]

Please contact me by e-mail to support at ghisler dot com for a test version which protocols what's going on. Other users who reported this problem can no longer reproduce it.

[gusJ]

Hi Christian,

Just a quick feedback that the issue seems to have been fixed in the latest release, 9.082.

Gus

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for your feedback! TC was hanging when unloading the OLE2 subsystem in the background thread which calls the delete function. What I do now is to never actually end this thread, but instead re-use it for the next delete operation. This way the hanging function is never called...

[gusJ]

May this be the cause why Total Commander remained in memory, according to Task Manager, even 30 seconds after closing by ALT+F4, and consuming 19% memory? (On my 8 core CPU, this may mean it was using one core at the max load.)

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, you are probably hit by that Windows 10 bug when TC closes and the threads should be ended. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. Just don't close TC.

[gusJ]

Yes, you are probably hit by that Windows 10 bug when TC closes and the threads should be ended. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. Just don't close TC.

Actually, it is very rare that I close it , so as long as it does not start eating up its CPU core, it's just fine.

[ghisler(Author)]

You could use one of the MinimizeOnClose options in wincmd.ini, see the help section 4b. for the possible values. This way you would just mimimize TC instead of closing it.