re: Folder default action Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:12 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dirk Diggler (79 messages posted) Hi Bob, open up your registry and make your way to these two places:- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell and in the right side of both, double-click:- (Default) and add the word:- none On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 4:06 pm, Bob wrote: >I added a custom action (prompt here) to a file folder in Windows XP. Now, for some >reason, the default action when I double click on a folder is to "Search..." not >"Open" the folder. I've tried setting the default action, but "Open" doesn't appear >as an action to set the default to on a File Folder. Now, I have "Open" set as the >default for a "Folder" type, but that doesn't seem to help. It's very frustrating. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks. >-Bob Written in response to: Folder default action (Bob: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 4:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Folder default action (Bob: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:37 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Folder default action (Bob: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 4:06 pm) re: Folder default action (Dirk Diggler: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 5:12 pm) re: Folder default action (Bob: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 5:37 pm) re: Folder default action (Dirk Diggler: Wed, Apr 24, 2002, 5:55 pm) re: Folder default action (Garrett D.: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 3:20 pm) re: Folder default action (Dirk Diggler: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 3:30 pm) re: Folder default action (pudly: Wed, May 29, 2002, 8:42 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum