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I'm trying out XYplorer and like it so far but want to add Norton's Scan context menu to quickly scan a selected folder like in Windows Explorer. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit. Is that possible?
Thanks

MikeBTP wrote:I'm trying out XYplorer and like it so far but want to add Norton's Scan context menu to quickly scan a selected folder like in Windows Explorer. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit. Is that possible?
Thanks

Hello and welcome to XYplorer forums!

There's a workaround posted here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3792
However, I am not sure if it'd be possible in your situation because installing 2 versions of the same IS suite is definitely not recommended, maybe even not possible. When I had NIS 2009 (albeit 32-bit, now I'm on 2010) the context menu was there.

It doesn't appear that NIS 2009 has a 64-bit version, at least the install is in the Program Files (x86) folder. In fact, the latest auto update from Norton seems to have deleted my Start menu buttons. I was going to attempt to write a script but the XY help file doesn't work and the Windows link to install the "fix" doesn't install. And, I can't even determine what Norton executable to run to open the scan window. What a mess Norton seems to be making.

Thanks,
Mike

I take some of that back:-) There is a Norton 64-bit Engine folder but all of the executables are in the 32-bit Engine folder.

If you have a current subscription to NIS then you can upgrade to 2010 for free. Just a thought, I did that. However, I think the problem in this case lies with XY, because it's not a true 64-bit application. Symantec don't have to include 32-bit extension with their 64-bit software, so they chose not to. Please don't blame them for something that is not their fault

Hi and Welcome,

PDF help file is available here: http://www.xyplorer.com/support.htm#helppdf

and regarding the help file not working, windows does not want to support .HLP anymore. Not perfect but this trick worked for me:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 281#p36281

I may be able to help with this issue. You should contact Norton support in the first instance. If you get no luck there then PM me your location and the support case ID. No promises though.

Thanks all for the helpful replies. I did install NIS 2010 and my Start menu items are back (but after searching through the Program Files folder I figured out how to create them again anyway). I also got the XY script working to scan a selected folder with NIS and that works just like the NIS context menu (except with a toolbar button which is one less click). Great.

I like the scripting feature although I had to do this one a bit differently from the Help example and after several different iterations it finally worked correctly. I also created one for WinRAR on a selected file which is very handy since I lost those context menu items as well.

This is just a suggestion, and I know that there are far too many programs to do this completely, but a few examples in the Help file for how to create a script to do what the context menus of programs like the above do would be very helpful. I couldn't find any in my limited search of the Help file that showed me exactly how to do this. Of course there was enough info that with a bit of trial and error I was able to figure things out.

Thanks again everyone.

MikeBTP wrote:Thanks all for the helpful replies. I did install NIS 2010 and my Start menu items are back (but after searching through the Program Files folder I figured out how to create them again anyway). I also got the XY script working to scan a selected folder with NIS and that works just like the NIS context menu (except with a toolbar button which is one less click). Great.

I like the scripting feature although I had to do this one a bit differently from the Help example and after several different iterations it finally worked correctly. I also created one for WinRAR on a selected file which is very handy since I lost those context menu items as well.

This is just a suggestion, and I know that there are far too many programs to do this completely, but a few examples in the Help file for how to create a script to do what the context menus of programs like the above do would be very helpful. I couldn't find any in my limited search of the Help file that showed me exactly how to do this. Of course there was enough info that with a bit of trial and error I was able to figure things out.

Thanks again everyone.

Hi,

thanks for working the stuff out! If you don't mind you can post your working examples right here and I put them into the help file.

Don

For NIS to scan a selected folder:
run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine\17.0.0.136\navw32.exe" "<curpath>\*";

For WinRAR to extract from multiple consecutive .RAR files by selecting only the first file:
run "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\winRAR.exe" "x" "<curitem>"
"x" in this example is their command to extract to the current folder and preserve folder structure within the compressed file.

One that I haven't tried yet with WinRAR would be to select several .ZIP files and do the above. Do you know if there is a way to do that?

Thanks,
Mike

MikeBTP wrote:For NIS to scan a selected folder:
run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine\17.0.0.136\navw32.exe" "<curpath>\*";

For WinRAR to extract from multiple consecutive .RAR files by selecting only the first file:
run "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\winRAR.exe" "x" "<curitem>"
"x" in this example is their command to extract to the current folder and preserve folder structure within the compressed file.

One that I haven't tried yet with WinRAR would be to select several .ZIP files and do the above. Do you know if there is a way to do that?

Thanks,
Mike

Thanks for the examples. Where would you put it in the Help file; where have you looked for it? You know, there are also other good places for XY scripting examples: XYwiki, the forum here, and the XY Tour on the home page.

I can't answer your question (no time to try) -- some of the scripters here probably will...

I would put it in the Scripting Commands Reference under "run". That's the second place I looked after the first few pages of the Scripting topic. And I would suggest that you add a short sentence in the first section, Introduction, referring to the Scripting Commands Reference with a link there to that Reference page. I would have immediately gone to the Commands Reference page to see what commands were available rather than scrolling through Scripting (although I probably should have skimmed the TOC first).

As a software developer myself, when we create Help and User Guides we place links to other sections/topics generously throughout the guide so that the user, when reading a topic, may easily jump to something else if he sees that there's more info on another item that caught his attention (not that we're experts on this by any means:-).

Hope this helps.

MikeBTP wrote:I would put it in the Scripting Commands Reference under "run". That's the second place I looked after the first few pages of the Scripting topic. And I would suggest that you add a short sentence in the first section, Introduction, referring to the Scripting Commands Reference with a link there to that Reference page. I would have immediately gone to the Commands Reference page to see what commands were available rather than scrolling through Scripting (although I probably should have skimmed the TOC first).

As a software developer myself, when we create Help and User Guides we place links to other sections/topics generously throughout the guide so that the user, when reading a topic, may easily jump to something else if he sees that there's more info on another item that caught his attention (not that we're experts on this by any means:-).

Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot. Actually I'm working on better help at the moment. Within a few weeks there will be CHM help which is apparently preferred by many users and a couple of minor operating systems...