re: Setting default action for ''file folder''
Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 8:07 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by The Actuator
(2 messages posted)
sarah is correct.
Operating system: Microsoft windows xp or probably any other version of microsoft
window, u can learn how to check by reading on.
symptom: you click on a folder and somthing other that the folder contents opens
up, or u right click on a folder and then select open or some other command from
the list and what want to happen does not. Or u click on a folder icon in the right
window of explorer and some other program or application opens instead of the folders
contents
All of these problems are causes by file type actions that are set wrong or should
not be in the registry
To get rid of file type actions for a file folder(example of a file type action:
u click on a folder and something like dos opens up or some other program, or windows
"find program" opens up, whatever it is, the point is, the stuff that is in your
file folder does not show up)
well this problem is because of a file type action that should be deleted out of
the registry, I will show u how and where to go to delet this file type action
by the way, u may have encountered this problem by messing around in the control
panel>folder options>file types>advanced button area! and u may have created a new
action, well if this is your problem then read on.
to check and see if u created a "action" and it is messing up your computer do this
1.open up the registry by clicking
start>run> then type regedit.exe and hit ok
now your in the registry
2. double click HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and scroll down to "directory"
3. double click "directory" and then double click "shell"
4. if there is anything listed in shell other than a find folder then u created it
and u need to delete it. Just dont delete the find folder and everything in it though,
that is suppose to be there!, KEEP THE FIND FOLDER, DELETE EVERY THING ELSE UNDER
SHELL!
Problem is now fixed, close regedit and right click on the desktop and choose refresh
and now try clicking on a folder and it will open and display the folders contents
like it is supposed to!
after-thought:
You see, the files in this particular shell are file type actions, and they will
override the default actions that microsoft set your operating system to use, the
reason you click on a file and the contents dont display is because of these extra
file type actions that you dont want to have there.
a little story about this very problem that i had once.
whenever I right clicked on a folder and selected open, it would open windows command
processor which i had set it up to do through control panel>files and folders>file
types tab and then i clicked on file folder in the list and then clicked on advanced,
i clicked new and then typed the word open in the "action dialog" box. I set the
"application used to perform action dialog box" to be the file path to windows command
processor. THIS WAS BAD. every time i clicked on a folder, the windows command processor
would open cuz that was what the "open" action (that i created) was set to , instead
of opening folders contents like it is supposed to be. I found out that I needed
to delete the "open" action that I myself stupidly had windows create for me in the
registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shell
It didnt even occure to me that this registy file type action setting did not need
to be there until I looked at the exact same shell file on my sisters computer. My
sisters registry is the exact same what it was when she bought her computer and it
did not have anything else listed in the shell file except the find folder. I realized
that I had created that "open" action in the shell folder and then realized that
it needed to be deleted cuz windows was using what I created as the default. Once
I deleted the "open" action, that should not be there, my computer worked just like
it did before.
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002 at 9:22 pm, sarah wrote:
>I had the same problem and did this (back up registry first) then .... goto START,
>type regedit,go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, Directory, shell and then delete the actions
>listed. Folders will now open as they used to. I also did the same thing with my
>C and D drives, and instead of shell, went to drive and deleted actions which resulted
>in the actions going back as before. Hope this helps :)
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