re: THINK THERE IS AN ANSWER : worked for me!
Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 12:49 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by techboy
(3 messages posted)
This worked for me. Just that I did the trick with the explore-key since I never
use these "folders". I prefer having the tree-view. Also, when you are telling people
to add open as the default action it actually might not be helping. Telling me I
have to change the way I use Windows infuriates me.
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 3:53 am, atomik wrote:
>
>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
>
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