How to include Norton scan in XYplorer context menu

[lgjames]

I use Norton 360. Is there a way I can add Norton scan to the XYplorer context menu?

[admin]

Welcome to the club,

If it does show in Explorer's context menu and not in XYplorer's, then use the command "Show 64-bit Context Menu" from XYplorer's context menu. Can you see it now?

Don

[highend]

Do you use a 64-bit OS?

If that's the case and you right click on a e.g. a folder that you'd like to scan and you choose:
Show 64-bit Context Menu

can't you see the necessary Norton menu?

[RalphM]

I don't recall the reason but my Norton Internet Security didn't add anything to the context menu either, so I created a PFA for it as follows:

PicPick_155.jpg

Whenever the engine is updated though, you need to manually adjust the version number (i.e. 22.5.2.15) in the PFA definition.

[highend]

It seems even when XY shows the 64-bit context menu, the necessary submenu item under "Norton 360" is missing...
In WE it's called "Scan Now". Tested with Win7 x64...

So I'd follow RalphM's suggestion.

You don't need to change the CFA entry each time Norton 360 updates itself. I've made a video that (hopefully) shows how to:
- Create the necessary icon
- Create the necessary script
- Build the CFA
- Change the config

You can get IconsExtract here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html

The code for the script:

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$programFiles = (%osbitness% == 64) ? "%ProgramFiles(x86)%" : "%ProgramFiles%";
    $navw32 = quicksearch("Navw32.exe", "$programFiles", "|");
    if ($navw32) { $navw32 = gettoken($navw32, -1, "|"); }
    else { status "navw32.exe not found, aborted!", "8B4513", "stop"; end 1==1; }
    $itemsToScan = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", '" "');
    run """$navw32"" ""$itemsToScan""";

The CFA entry (if you use the same paths as in the video):

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|"Scan with Norton 360|<xyicons>\Norton360.ico"\;*>::load "Norton360.xys";

The video for the explanations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRLThk ... e=youtu.be

[RalphM]

...You don't need to change the CFA entry each time Norton 360 updates itself...

Since this happens only every couple of months these days, it's overkill IMO to script this but as shown can certainly be done.