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Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-11, 12:58 UTC
by nsp
Does it is the same if you turn on/off your antivirus (without network) ?
I personally never install in program file specially plugins but i'm probably to old fashioned...
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-11, 13:30 UTC
by petermad
0=C:\Program Files\totalcmd\plugins\wlx\Imagine\Imagine.wlx
0_detect="MULTIMEDIA"
Hmm, that should be OK.
Does it help if you change it to
0_detect="EXT="JPG" | EXT="PNG" | MULTIMEDIA"
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-11, 14:48 UTC
by Gral
Fla$her wrote: 2025-04-07, 14:51 UTC
Well it's not about what happens in your case, it's about how the plugin behaves in other conditions.
Fla$her wrote: 2025-04-07, 16:56 UTC
...One can, of course, trust the statistics, or one can rely on one’s own experience.
Logic
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-11, 20:54 UTC
by Fla$her
Gral wrote: 2025-04-11, 14:48 UTC
Logic
Sound logic.
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-15, 09:23 UTC
by flychi
nsp wrote: 2025-04-11, 12:58 UTC
Does it is the same if you turn on/off your antivirus
(without network) ?
I personally never install in program file specially plugins but i'm probably to old fashioned...
Thanks, this is a good idea, I'll try it if I have time.
2petermad：
0_detect="EXT="JPG" | EXT="PNG" | MULTIMEDIA"
Very useful advice, I'll try it later.
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-28, 07:11 UTC
by flychi
I noticed that all plugins are slow to open after the Computer is started, but very fast when used again.
I think this is a common problem.
WFX:davplug.wfx
WLX:Imagine.wlx,sumatrapdf.wlx,CADView.wlx
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-28, 13:06 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
They are DLLs, so depending on the speed of the PC and virus scanner it can take a while to scan them. Virus scanners will re-scan files each time they get new virus definitions, so a new virus not present in the older definitions can be found.
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-28, 13:55 UTC
by flychi
ghisler(Author) wrote: 2025-04-28, 13:06 UTC
They are DLLs, so depending on the speed of the PC and virus scanner it can take a while to scan them. Virus scanners will re-scan files each time they get new virus definitions, so a new virus not present in the older definitions can be found.
Thank you very much for the guidance.
Is there any way to avoid the scan? After all, this kind of scanning is meaningless.
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-29, 15:34 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
Yes, most virus scanners allow to put specific files and/or directories on a "white list" which are then skipped.
I recommend that you only do this when Total Commander and the plugins are installed under "Program Files" AND the plugins are not brand new. Then it's very unlikely that they contain a new undiscovered virus. Be careful with new plugins, though.
Re: Problem of opening the wlx plugin very slowly for the first time
Posted: 2025-04-30, 08:38 UTC
by Horst.Epp
ghisler(Author) wrote: 2025-04-29, 15:34 UTC
Yes, most virus scanners allow to put specific files and/or directories on a "white list" which are then skipped.
I recommend that you only do this when Total Commander and the plugins are installed under "Program Files" AND the plugins are not brand new. Then it's very unlikely that they contain a new undiscovered virus. Be careful with new plugins, though.
I have portable TC and all plugins installed under C:\Tools\Wincmd
since its very first version under Windows 3.11.
Never had any virus infections.
Of course, there was always an active Anti-Virus tool.
Currently, it's Windows Defender, but with Process and Folder exceptions for the TC tree.
Sometimes I make a full scan over this path.