[Q] Folder OPEN always opens in a new window even though I have it set as open in same window....

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

- I believe I have the "open" action for folders screwed up somehow in
the registry on my XP Pro SP2 box
- I have Tools.Folder Otions set as "Open each folder in the same
window"
- However when I double click on a folder a new window is *always*
opened. (Same happens if I right click and select "Open" off the
context sensitive menu
- Reboots have not solved the problem

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get this fixed? I
want to be able to double click on a folder and it opens in the same
window I already have open.

TIA

 

[David Candy]

Type in Start Run
regsvr32 /i shell32

 

[Donovan J. Edye]

Type in Start Run
regsvr32 /i shell32

Thanks for the fast reply. Running that solved the problem. Many thanks.

 

[Stan Brown]

Type in Start Run
regsvr32 /i shell32

Is there a list somewhere of these regsvr32's and what they all do?
I'd google for it but I don't know the terminology to make a sensible
Google search.

 

[David Candy]

Look in the system32 folder on your computer. But no there is no list.Each dll registers itself so noone has to think how to register everything. MS no longer are into self registering modules (a module is an executable file loaded in memory - file when on disk and module when in memory).

 

[Stan Brown]

Look in the system32 folder on your computer. But no there is no list.Each dll registers itself so noone has to think how to register everything. MS no longer are into self registering modules (a module is an executable file loaded in memory - file when on disk and module when in memory).

?? "Each dll registers itself" - but they _don't_, at least not
reliably, or there wouldn't be so many problems posted where the
answer is to do regsvr32 of one of them.

My question is, where's the list of what each one does, so that when
a problem occurs we can scan the list and perhaps know which one
needs to be re-registered.