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re: Setting default action for ''file folder''
Friday, October 10, 2003 at 6:26 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dave
(1 messages posted)
thanks heaps i thought i was the only dummy out there its nice to now someone can
give advice without charging
once again thanks alot
On Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 8:07 pm, The Actuator wrote:
>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"
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>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.
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