XYplorer Beta Club

Hi, first post.. I recently purchased XYplorer and right away had strange time with it.

If I open my system drive properties -> Tools -> Error checking -> Scan drive through XYplorer, Windows states that my drive has an error and does not give an option to scan the drive. However no errors are detected by chkdsk and smart status for system disk is fine. I spent some time trying to understand what's going on until I tried to do the same thing with native file explorer. The properties dialog has one more tab when opened through native file explorer ("hardware") and checking the disk gives no errors and lets me scan my c: drive..

So I presume xyplorer does not open disk properties the same way windows file explorer does? What's going on?

I'm using Windows 10, 64 bit.

Cheers.

Context menu menus vary depending on the bitness of the calling process.

File Explorer is a 64-bit process and shows the 64-bit context menu.

XYplorer is a 32-bit process and shows the 32-bit context menu by default. However, it can also show the 64-bit context menu. Tick this:

Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show the 64-bit context menu

Thank you. That seems to work. That wasn't quite obvious for a standard user like me..

Totally agree. Qualifies as a Windows bug if you ask me. I cannot see any reason why this menu should differ depending on the bitness of the calling process.