Mapped drive "...does not have a program associated with it..."

[Graham R Seach]

Hi guys,

I have a 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP1 workstation that has mapped drives setup
at login by a script coming from SBS 2003 R2. This method of mapping drives
has been running quite happily on 32-bit machines for several years until I
purchased and setup this new 64-bit machine. Only on this machine, if I
double-click one of three mapped drives (S), I get the following error:

"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. blah blah blah."

The context menu for drive S is as follows:
Install or run program
Explore
Open
...The rest are the same as for other folders.

The Open and Explore items do as they're supposed to, but the [Install or
run program] item results in the abovementioned error. All other mapped
drives function as expected. I'm not sure if it makes any difference, but
among a raft of other files and folders, this drive also contains a system
folder called 'System Volume Information'. It appears to be the only drive
to contain this folder.

I had a look in the Registry, but couldn't find any difference between drive
S and any other mapped drive.

Can anyone shed some light on what may have happened here, and more
importantly, how to fix it??

Regards,
Graham R Seach

 

[Jon]

Look for an 'autorun.inf' file in the root of the S drive. If so there's
your reason. Opening it up in notepad would show further what it does.

 

[Graham R Seach]

Hi Jon,

Already checked that. No autorun or ini files.

Regards,
Graham R Seach

Look for an 'autorun.inf' file in the root of the S drive. If so there's
your reason. Opening it up in notepad would show further what it does.

--
Jon

Hi guys,

I have a 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP1 workstation that has mapped drives
setup at login by a script coming from SBS 2003 R2. This method of
mapping drives has been running quite happily on 32-bit machines for
several years until I purchased and setup this new 64-bit machine. Only
on this machine, if I double-click one of three mapped drives (S), I get
the following error:

"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action. blah blah blah."

The context menu for drive S is as follows:
Install or run program
Explore
Open
...The rest are the same as for other folders.

The Open and Explore items do as they're supposed to, but the [Install or
run program] item results in the abovementioned error. All other mapped
drives function as expected. I'm not sure if it makes any difference, but
among a raft of other files and folders, this drive also contains a
system folder called 'System Volume Information'. It appears to be the
only drive to contain this folder.

I had a look in the Registry, but couldn't find any difference between
drive S and any other mapped drive.

Can anyone shed some light on what may have happened here, and more
importantly, how to fix it??

Regards,
Graham R Seach

 

[+Bob+]

Hi guys,

I have a 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP1 workstation that has mapped drives setup
at login by a script coming from SBS 2003 R2. This method of mapping drives
has been running quite happily on 32-bit machines for several years until I
purchased and setup this new 64-bit machine. Only on this machine, if I
double-click one of three mapped drives (S), I get the following error:

Are any of the other 32 bit machines Vista based ?

 

[Graham R Seach]

Hi Bob,

Yes, in fact all are now Vista. This is the only 64-bit machine though.

Regards,
Graham R Seach

 

[Graham R Seach]

Never mind. I found the problem on Google.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\##sol#devtools]
had a Shell key appended to it. I deleted it, and all's well with the world.

Regards,
Graham R Seach