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You can access Recycle Bin context menu with right click on button "F8 Delete".
If CD drives are not detected automatically, you can add DriveisCD=FGH
(where FGH are CD-ROM drives) in your wincmd.ini file under section [Configuration].
When copying from these drives, Total Commander will not copy the read only attribute.
To make the Directory Hotlist menu and Start menu more efficient, add shortcuts to the menus by including the ampersand (&) character before the shortcut letter. For example, to make the shortcut letter "E", you would make the title of the item "Drive &E", instead of "Drive E".
You can open a folder from Directory Hotlist menu or Start menu in a new tab by holding down the Ctrl key.
The command STARTMENU inserts the menuitem "Starter" at the current position in the
main menu. If you omit this menu option, it is inserted however nevertheless at the
end of the menu. When you like to suppress the announcement of the "Starter" in the menu,
please insert in your wincmd.ini a key RestrictInterface=1.
A key StartupScreen=0 in your wincmd.ini file under section [Configuration]
will turn splash screen at startup off.
When using Total Commander keyboard is quicker than the mouse. Try to remember function key buttons and shortcut keys. Carefully read keyboard help (Menu: Help->Keyboard) and try all keys and combinations. Otherwise you could miss some really useful possibilities.
To fast copy the name of file in Clipboard, simple press Shift+F6 and Ctrl+C. Then press Esc to cancel renaming procedure.
If you have to install Total Commander with the same settings on multiple machines, you can make
installation fully automatic like this:
Open the installer file tcmdr*.exe with Ctrl+PageDown and open the install.inf file with F4.
Under section [auto], you have to set auto=1.
In the same file you can also make changes to the default settings, e.g. target location.
When writing the files to a floppy disk and reading them back immediately afterwards, they are not read from the disk, but from the disk cache. You can verify written files if you remove and re-insert the floppy disk. You can then use the command 'Synchronize dirs' to compare the files by content with the originals on the harddisk.
Holding Shift while clicking on a button for changing the button bar will show content of the
button bar like this:
You can simply add a program (or file, or folder) to the button bar by holding down the SHIFT key, then dragging the program to the desired position.
In TC 7.5x, a key BarLimitLines= in your wincmd.ini file under section [ButtonBar]
will limit the number of button rows in the button bar to
To copy a button, click with right mouse button on the button and select "Copy" command from context menu.
Then click with right mouse button on empty space on your TC button bar and select "Paste".
This way you can copy a button into the same button bar, into another button bar, or into a text file.
In text file, the button looks like this:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
sndvol32.exe
/t
sndvol32.exe
Volume
-1
To copy a button from text file into your button bar, just mark the code from TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
to -1 and press Ctrl+C to copy it.
Then click with right mouse button on empty space on your TC button bar and select "Paste" command from context menu.
Here's few sample buttons:
This one will turn off your computer in one click:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
shutdown
-s -t 0
shell32.dll,215
Turn off computer
-1
One click reboot computer:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
shutdown
-r -t 0
shell32.dll,176
Reboot computer
-1
One click sleep mode:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
shell32.dll,217
Sleep mode
-1
Minimize all windows, like with "Show Desktop" in Quick Launch Bar:
(In Czech windows, there should be Zobrazit plochu instead of Show Desktop.)
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Show Desktop.scf
explorer.exe,3
Minimize all windows (Win+D)
-1
Disconnect from the Internet in one click:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
rasdial /d
netshell.dll,100
Disconnect from the Internet
1
-1
Create a copy of the entire system registry:
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
regedit
/e regimage.reg
regedit,1
Create a copy of the entire system registry
-1
Few buttons for work with WinRAR. Please adapt all paths to the real path to your WinRAR.
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
x %P%N "%T"
%COMMANDER_PATH%\WCMICONS.DLL,31
Extract RAR to the target directory
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\
-1
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
x %P%N "%P"
%COMMANDER_PATH%\WCMICONS.DLL,31
Extract RAR to the source directory
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\
-1
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
x %N "%O"\
%COMMANDER_PATH%\WCMICONS.DLL,31
Extract RAR to a folder with the same name as the archive
-1
TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%PROGRAMFILES%\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
a -m5 -s "%O.rar" ""%N""
%COMMANDER_PATH%\WCMICONS.DLL,30
Compress the current file using WinRAR with maximum compression
-1
A list of pseudo environment variables you can use, for example, on buttons or custom commands.
For example, cd %$PERSONAL%\ will open folder "My Documents".
%COMMANDER_PATH%
%COMMANDER_DRIVE% (TC 7)
%COMMANDER_INI% (TC 7)
%U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH%
%$APPDATA%
%$DESKTOP%
%$DESKTOPDIR%
%$FONTS%
%$MYMUSIC%
%$MYPICTURES%
%$MYVIDEO%
%$PERSONAL%
%$PROGRAMFILES%
%$PROGRAMS%
%$STARTMENU%
%$STARTUP%
%$SYSTEM%
%$WINDIR%
%$LOCAL_APPDATA%
%$COMMON_APPDATA%
%$COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%
%$COMMON_DOCUMENTS%
%$COMMON_PICTURES%
%$COMMON_PROGRAMS%
%$COMMON_STARTMENU%
%$COMMON_STARTUP%
This utility: TCShell 1.3.5 adds "Open in Total Commander" in menu of folders, disks, shell link's and any files.
With file autoplay.reg you can add an additional
menu entry "Open in Total Commander" in AutoPlay (when you insert new removable media,
i.e. CD, DVD, USB...).
In the last line of the file autoplay.reg, there's full path to Total Commander on your computer:
c:\\Program Files\\TotalCommander\\totalcmd.exe
If you have Total Commander somewhere else, please adapt the path in the last line
to the real path to Total Commander (do it also in the line "DefaultIcon").
Double-click this file in the TC or Explorer. You should see the
messagebox about successful importing of the registry script.
If you want to change the way it opens in TC, e.g. different panel,
new tab, etc., give a glance to Command line parameters in Help.
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