Messed up explorer file actions!! Clicking on folders doesnt work

[Kim Taylor]

Hi, can anyone help me?
I tried to change the icon for the file folders in
explorer>tools>folder options>file types>advanced.. but it
seems to have changed the actions aswell!! Now when i
click on a folder it brings me to a search page instead of
opening it!! this is highly annoying.. i tried making an
action called 'explore' and setting the program to
explore.exe, but it doesnt work!

Can anyone tell me how to change it back? or to reset
explorer? That would help me loads!!!

 

[SA]

Hi, can anyone help me?
I tried to change the icon for the file folders in
explorer>tools>folder options>file types>advanced.. but it
seems to have changed the actions aswell!! Now when i
click on a folder it brings me to a search page instead of
opening it!! this is highly annoying.. i tried making an
action called 'explore' and setting the program to
explore.exe, but it doesnt work!

Can anyone tell me how to change it back? or to reset
explorer? That would help me loads!!!

Hello. Run Hijack this and spybot s and d. See if that helps. Good luck.

 

[t.cruise]

For the fix, go to:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm


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[Guest]

Yay! you fixed it, thank you, nice person!!!

-----Original Message-----
For the fix, go to:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.ht m


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Hi, can anyone help me?
I tried to change the icon for the file folders in
explorer>tools>folder options>file types>advanced.. but it
seems to have changed the actions aswell!! Now when i
click on a folder it brings me to a search page instead of
opening it!! this is highly annoying.. i tried making an
action called 'explore' and setting the program to
explore.exe, but it doesnt work!

Can anyone tell me how to change it back? or to reset
explorer? That would help me loads!!!

.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, can anyone help me?
I tried to change the icon for the file folders in
explorer>tools>folder options>file types>advanced.. but it
seems to have changed the actions aswell!! Now when i
click on a folder it brings me to a search page instead of
opening it!! this is highly annoying.. i tried making an
action called 'explore' and setting the program to
explore.exe, but it doesnt work!

You changed the default action - which has a special status for folders
normally.

Run regedit.exe, open the left pane to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
and in the right pane double click on (Default) and enter the explicit
four characters:
none

Repeat at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell