Double clicking drives opens search box, not the drive.

[Guest]

I have a XP home SP2 pc that somehow changed the default for the hard drive
and the dvd rom drive. It now opens a search box instead of opening the
drive in explorer. Any idea on how to reset the default back?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

 

[Wesley Vogel]

<quote>
Search opens after editing Drives or Directories

Type in Start Run

regsvr32 /i shell32

This occurs when you use the File Types dialog to edit Drives or
Directories. You need to type the above each time you use that dialog to
edit those two types.
<quote> From David Candy

If that doesn't fix it, see these...

Search Companion Starts If You Double-Click a Folder or Drive
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/searchwindow.htm

Fixes the problem where Search or Command Prompt opens
when double clicking a folder © Doug Knox
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm

Search Companion Starts If You Double-Click a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/32118

Search companion opens when you double-click a Compressed (zipped) folder in
Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/zipverb.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Jaymon]

Hi,

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/searchwindow.htm

May help
Cheers
j;-j