Strange behavior of Encrypt or Backup command

Sometimes you might observe a strange behavior of the Kryptel Encrypt or Backup command. It displays unexpected dialogs, asks irrelevant questions, and in general does not do what you expect it to do from reading the program documentation.

The answer is simple: it is not a Kryptel command. You have some encryption or backup program installed on your system, that inserts its Encrypt or Backup command into the right-click menu before Kryptel. The system does not allow identical commands in the right-click menu so it hides the corresponding Kryptel command. The following screenshots show how you can recognize this case.

This is how the right-click menu should look. The Kryptel commands appear as a single group, separated from other commands with horizontal lines.

If the Encrypt commands works incorrectly in your system then your right-click menu looks like the one on the screenshot. The Kryptel group includes only two commands; the Kryptel Encrypt command does not appear because some encryption program inserted an Encrypt command before Kryptel got a chance to insert its.

Problem Solution

The simplest solution is to uninstall the interfering software. However if you cannot uninstall it (or don't want to), there is another way. You can rename the Kryptel command to avoid the conflict with other programs.

Go to the Kryptel program directory (by default it is C:\Program Files\Kryptel) and open the folder Language Files. Now open the Crypto Settings panel to check what interface language is selected.

Interface language is English US

English US is the reference language. The English US language files cannot be edited with the Kryptel Message Editor so you will have to change the command manually. Locate the file Shex.409, right-click it, and select Open with Notepad. Scroll down until you find the Context menu verbs part and change the conflicting command to anything you like. For example, you can replace the Encrypt command with Encrypt Data, or Kryptel Encrypt, or Secure File. Don't change the message identifier which looks like VERB_KR_ENCRYPT, it must remain the same no matter how the command is renamed. Now press Ctrl-S to save the file and restart your system.

Interface language is other than English US

Double-click the file MsgEd.exe to run the Kryptel Message Editor. Select Shex in the Base File box, Select your interface language in the Target Language box, Clear the checkbox Show untranslated messages only to display all strings, Select the identifier VERB_KR_ENCRYPT for the Encrypt command or VERB_KR_BACKUP for the Backup command Edit the command name so it no more conflicts with other commands in the right-click menu, Press Save to save the file and restart your system.

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