Can't open drives.........................

[zizou]

Hi there,

 

When i open My Computer and double click on any one of my drives to enter it, an 'Open With' menu would appear instead. The only way i can access my drives is by right-clicking on a drive and selecting 'Explore' to open it. What should i do to be able to open my drives directly once again via double-clicking on them?

Edited December 30, 2006 by zizou

[erlking34]

hello,

 

try visiting this link

 

CAUTION: Once downloaded, running this script changes your registry settings. Shogan

 

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_folder_open.vbs

 

when you see finished!! at the bottom, try opening your drives again.

 

let us know if it fixes it.

Edited December 31, 2006 by shogan191

[Bear]

Your intentions may be good posting scrip that is going to change a reg setting

with out posting how to return to the previous setting is not cool.

 

Bear

[duanester]

for those that wish to study the script without clicking the link

 

'folder_open.vbs - Fixes problem where Search opens on a double click
'© Doug Knox - 03/13/2002
'Downloaded from www.dougknox.com

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

p1 = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\"
p2 = "none"

WshShell.RegWrite p1, p2

p1 = "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\"
WshShell.RegWrite p1, p2

X = WshShell.Run("REGSVR32 /I /S SHELL32.DLL",4,True)
Set WshShell = Nothing

MyBox = MsgBox("Folders will now Open when double clicked", 4096, "Finished!")

[shogan191]

Thanks Bear and duanester. Hopefully the warning will be enough.

Some links

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertz...perts/knox.mspx

http://www.dougknox.com/

[zizou]

hello,

 

try visiting this link

 

CAUTION: Once downloaded, running this script changes your registry settings. Shogan

 

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_folder_open.vbs

 

when you see finished!! at the bottom, try opening your drives again.

 

let us know if it fixes it.

 

Doesn't help...

 

For everyone's info: This problem arose only after i removed several adwares, trojans and crappy stuff from my comp using Ewido anti-spyware. I think it could be due to the program removing an infected file which was required for my drives to open normally. My 1 cents' worth..

[Joe C]

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

[zizou]

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

 

Doesn't do anything as well...

 

Since system files aren't the culprit, I guess it has something to do with file associations in the registry being messed up. Anybody?

[duanester]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859/en-us

 

someone must have changed the file association when opening things

[zizou]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859/en-us

 

someone must have changed the file association when opening things

 

I have seen this article... but doesn't help, unless somebody knows what program a drive can be opened with.

[duanester]

since its file association and you dont have a backed up registry, theres a repair install or trust a google search

 

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8

[zizou]

since its file association and you dont have a backed up registry, theres a repair install or trust a google search

 

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8

 

Holy %@$#! Resetting the file associations almost f%$#ked my comp up. I couldn't boot up into windows after i merged the registry settings. Luckily something called 'Last good known configuration' saved me.

[zizou]

I finally solved it on my own. Solution was to manually set the drive to 'open with' shellexplore.exe (file in system32 folder). Rebooted and all drives open normally again.

 

Thx to everyone who tried to help.