Trouble with TCMD 36 and desktop shortcut keys

[Marc Leager]

Problem: sudden, premature termination of TCC when starting TCMD 36 from desktop link.

Using the TCMD 36 desktop icon/link...
1) with a shortcut key assigned in the link properties, e.g. Ctl+Alt+T, TCMD 36 will start with the "not yet registered" panel. When Continue is selected, TCMD will (apparently) try to open TCC, but TCC will flash the splash panel, then close immediately and TCMD closes. Also TCC seems to run the TCEXIT.BTM macro as it closes.
2) with NO shortcut key assigned in the TCMD 36 desktop link properties, all is well, TCMD opens and TCC opens normally.
3) no problems starting TCMD 36 from its .exe file via RUN or File Explorer or other utilities. In these cases, TCC starts normally after TCMD 36.
4) no problems starting TCC from its .exe file or from a desktop link, with or without assigning a shortcut key to the link.
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The problem seems to be having a shortcut key assigned in the TCMD desktop link properties. With no shortcut key assigned, all is well. This was not a problem with previous TCMD, such as v.26. The shortcut key assignment does not seem to affect TCC.

 

[vefatica]

I reproduced that by simply making a desktop shortcut and assigning Ctrl-Atr-I to it. As soon as I see TCC's prompt, TCC and TCMD disappear.

There's no DMP file and no event log entry. I got this one line in tcc.exception.log the first time.

[2026/10/07 21:24:38.573] D:\TakeCommand36\TCConsole\ntinit.cpp:502 wmain()  Exception - 3

But repeating the experiment several times with the same result produced no more entries in tcc.exception.log.

 

[vefatica]

All is as @Marc Leager said. And ECHO %_EXIT in tcexit.btm gives 0.