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re: Folder default action Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:12 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Folder default action Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:37 pm Posted by Bob (2 messages posted) That did it!!! Thanks. Is this yet another bug in XP? On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:12 pm, Dirk Diggler wrote: >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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Folder default action Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:55 pm Posted by Dirk Diggler (79 messages posted) Yes I suppose it is a bug, and a rather annoying one. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Folder default action Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 3:20 pm Posted by Garrett D. (1 messages posted) Thank you for helping Bob solve his problem.. I too had a similar problem once I installed the Prompt Here powertool, but within 5 minutes of finding this web site, I had the problem fixed, thanks to your post. :) I just wanted to say thanks, for making answers to (relatively) easy questions available to those of us who need them :) On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 5:55 pm, Dirk Diggler wrote: >Yes I suppose it is a bug, and a rather annoying one. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Folder default action Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 3:30 pm Posted by Dirk Diggler (79 messages posted) Well thats what were all here for, to help and be helped. Glad it worked for you. Dirk [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Folder default action Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 8:42 pm Posted by pudly (1 messages posted) Ok i had the exact same problem ... now when i fixed it as you suggested, it worked however, when i double click on a folder in Windows Explorer, it opens it up in it's new window now as opposed to how it used to do it (just explore it inside windows explorer).... lemme know if that's a common thing too, or weather i screwed something up if possible thanks in advance On Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 3:30 pm, Dirk Diggler wrote: >Well thats what were all here for, to help and be helped. >Glad it worked for you. >Dirk [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum