[mtfslinkext-changes] [ ntfslinkext-Feature Requests-1667086 ] Windows 2003 64bits Shell extensions

Feature Requests item #1667086, was opened at 2007-02-23 14:27
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Victor (leonset)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windows 2003 64bits Shell extensions

Initial Comment:
Hello!

I have just installed NTFS Link v2.1 in Windows 2003 64bit and the shell extensions doesn't seem to work. I have taken a look at the registry entries and the shell extensions seem to be there, but they don't show up.

Has anyone tried this software in Win2K3-64?

Thanks

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>Comment By: Sebastian Schuberth (eyebex)
Date: 2007-10-12 09:40

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As I mentioned in my first comment, there already is a C++/ATL/WTL
extension available for 64-bit UNicode platforms here:

http://itb0002a.itb.uni-oldenburg.de/tools/awxdown.php?file=awxLink_x64

It has been around for a while and is supposed to be stable. So I don't
see the immediate need for another C++ implementation. It's not Open
Source, though.

BTW: Delphi / Free Pascal are Unicode aware.

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Comment By: Roman Ryltsov (ryltsov)
Date: 2007-10-12 00:31

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I made a similar shell extension but in C++/ATL/WTL which is probably
easier to compile for 64-bit Windows (and it's also an Unicode build - thus
better cares for international characters, I am unsure if Delphi is Unicode
friendly nowadays), and I also had requests for 64-bit versions but the
problem is that I don't have a 64-bit system to test. If anyone is
interested in getting and testing 64-bit version, please let me know and I
will compile and possibly sort out issues to get things work under 64 bits.

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Comment By: Michael Elsdoerfer (miracle2k)
Date: 2007-06-22 14:42

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I'd like to reopen that ticket. It should be possible to compile the
extension with FreePascal by not using the ComServ.pas und ComObj.pas
units. See the NSE library at mustangpeak.net which has it's own
implementation.

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Comment By: Sebastian Schuberth (eyebex)
Date: 2007-04-08 17:28

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NTFS Link will currently not work with 64-bit Windows of any kind. This is
because the software is a shell extension, and for 64-bit Windows shell
extensions need to be compiled as native 64-bit DLLs. The only free (in
terms of gratis) Delphi / Pascal compiler to my knowledge that can
currently generate native 64-bit Windows DLLs is FreePascal, but
unfortunately FreePascal is lacking some basic features to be able to
compile NTFS Link's source code. This means there will not be a 64-bit
version in the foreseeable future.

As a work-around you could use the 32-bit version of Windows Explorer
under 64-bit Windows (there the shell extension should register
successfully), but that's certainly not a very good approach.

In the meantime, you may want to try a "concurring" product that is
written in C++ already offers a native 64-bit shell extension:
http://www.arniworld.de/ ("awxLink" under "Downloads")

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