The default key under the "Open" key we created is of type REG_SZ. As I noticed with the other default values here, they are all of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.

How to fix? Export some other key as a reg file and you see that that this REG_EXPAND_SZ seems to mean that they are stored as UNICODE?? HEX??? I don't know, just export the "Manage" key to a .REG file, open it with notepad, replace "Manage" with "Open" (what we had created) and load the reg file again.

Now the type of the default value under command is no longer REG_SZ but REG_EXPAND_SZ. It has the %windir\sys32\mmc.... of the manage command, just replace that with the explorer.exe command of your liking and it worked on my box.

Good explorer command? explorer.exe /n, /e, ....

Now I don't want explorer to expand my C:\ and I also don't want to have it expand the mydocs. I want the behaviour you get when you press the windows button+E. Any ideas? :-)


On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 3:07 pm, David wrote:
>Yup!
>
>I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must
>also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least,
>usable) to direct Windows to the default action.
>
>Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default
>value to "Explorer".
>
>He is right, however you can also just point the default in the "shell" key to Open
>(the key that was made in "shell")

Written in response to: re: Question about 'Customize My Computer' (David: Friday, December 6, 2002 at 3:07 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Customize My Computer' (Steve Brune: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 12:03 pm)

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