THINK THERE IS AN ANSWER : worked for me!
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 3:53 am
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Posted by atomik
(1 messages posted)
My answer is probably too late, but i ran into the problem described : When I double-clicked
on folders, my folder didn't open and instead it was the search thing that popped
up.
It seems that there is multiple keys handling the folder file type, 'cause as you
will see in my answer, I resolved my problem using the Directory key instead of the
Folder one. It is located in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
I did the following to resolve the problem (using the registry editor):
1) Exported the open command from the Folder type (same location as Directory, except
that it is named Directory)
2) Hacked it a bit using notepad to change all occurances from Folder to Directory
3) Imported it in my registry
4) Gone to FolderOptions->FileTypes->Folder
5) Selected open as the default action
6) Got back in the reg editor and deleted the new open command in Directory
Everything was back as it was before : The search... option is there and find isn't
the default action anymore...
I'm not sure, but I realized that maybe the open command do not need to be in the
shell key to be used, since if you did step 6 in my solution, the open action isn't
in the Directory action list anymore, but still work as the default action for double-clicks...
Maybe you could simply try to go in the reg editor and double-click on the shell
key in Directory and type "open" as the default key value... This is the way windows
seems to keep default actions for file types. After all the procedure shown above,
it seems that this is the only thing left that I changed in my registry compared
to before my procedure =)
Hope it will help some of you, as it worked for me. Also hope that my answer is clear
=)
atomik
On Thursday, August 22, 2002 at 1:54 am, jason wrote:
>I did the same thing, when opening a folder, a Seach window would popup. Your fix
>worked, but now my "Search..." option is gone ("find" was the only
>listed action under shell). I restored the find branch
>and it was again the default action. I compared this branch to a known good machine,
>and they are identical.
>
>Does any one know where the registry key that controlls the default action for the
>Directory" file type is located?
>
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