Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to OpenWith..." window

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Rob Gordon

I have an odd one,

I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a
prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where
this would be.

Any ideas?
 
Rob,
Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

karl snooks

|I have an odd one,
|
| I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a
| prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
| being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
|
| This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where
| this would be.
|
| Any ideas?
 
Rob,
Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
attrib /?
This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

karl snooks

| Karl,
|
| You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"
| on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
| don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
file.
|
|
| Karl Snooks wrote:
| > Rob,
| > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
| >
| > karl snooks
| >
| > | > |I have an odd one,
| > |
| > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get
a
| > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
| > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
| > |
| > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
where
| > | this would be.
| > |
| > | Any ideas?
| >
| >
 
Rob,
Great. Glad to have been of assistance.
karl

| Worked perfectly. Thanks so much, Karl.
|
| Robert
|
| Karl Snooks wrote:
| > Rob,
| > Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
| > attrib /?
| > This will familiarize you with the attribute command.
| >
| > With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.
| >
| > Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.
| >
| > Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.
| >
| > karl snooks
| >
| > | > | Karl,
| > |
| > | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir
/a"
| > | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
| > | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
| > file.
| > |
| > |
| > | Karl Snooks wrote:
| > | > Rob,
| > | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
| > | >
| > | > karl snooks
| > | >
| > | > | > | > |I have an odd one,
| > | > |
| > | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:,
get
| > a
| > | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of
just
| > | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
| > | > |
| > | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
| > where
| > | > | this would be.
| > | > |
| > | > | Any ideas?
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
 
I'm not that familiar with the dos commands, but I'm having the same problem
when trying to open my two hard drives from "My Computer". Is there a way to
remove the autorun.inf from the c: root without using dos commands?
 
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