View File is broken in MC x64 v 16.0 (build 3166)

[Anti-Bacterial]

Today I updated to Multi Commander (x64) v 16.0 (build 3166).  Build date May 29 2026.
Problem: The View File menu (and F1 key) is no longer working for txt, csv files. When I select a txt file and choose View File, nothing happens. However it does work correctly for PNG files. I have not testing other file formats.  Any suggestions please? Thank you

[Mathias (Author)]

This is beta version. so please keep it to the beta forum.. (I moved post)

Yes a file is missing for Windows 10, on Win11 this file is already installed by the system.


Unpack and place the included file next to MultiFileViewer.dll, for example in C:\Program Files\MultiCommander (x64)\Extensions\MultiFileViewer\
But it depends on install folder.

[total_annihilation00]

Thanks Mathias, it's working properly now —the internal-text-viewer is firing up once again ! Also, I will test further and see if I encounter any problems with MC progress dialog box hanging again when moving files to USB drives. The file I moved was a 1 MB SNES ROM (.SFC) (just some game file.) Had no issues when moving via TeraCopy however. 😎👍

[Anti-Bacterial]

Thanks Mathias, works perfectly now.  Interestingly enough, I searched my C: drive and found about 2 dozen copies of WebView2Loader.dll with various dates/sizes scattered in other Windows apps folders all over the place. Gotta love DLL hell! I thought we were over that, Microsoft! LOL 

[Mathias (Author)]

Dll hell is over. because all apps have there own version.
Before when you installed shared version, than some software with would stop working because some software downgrade the file to a previous version.
Or upgrade it and the API in it required some changes. or that some app removed it because the app was uninstalled.

The standard today is to make sure the software you install include all the files it need. and don't use shared dll.. So many bugs and issue can be track to the shared dll hell.

Drive space is cheap today compare to the WinXP Days.  Share the dll and save 2 MB per app or have each app have there own version of the file and get a more stable system. ?