problem with opening folders

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Joan

For some reason when I double click on a folder to open it,
I get the "search for files and folders" window instead. I end up having
to
right click on the folder to find the "open" option in the right click menu
to get it to open. This is a
winXP pro laptop and it was not doing this a few days ago, I imagine I must
have done something which I do not recall to cause this. Can someone please
tell
me how to repair this? it is interfering with my work to the nth degree. I
checked folder
options but could not find an item that I could relate to this problem.

Thanks,
Joan
 
Joan said:
For some reason when I double click on a folder to open it,
I get the "search for files and folders" window instead. I end up having
to
right click on the folder to find the "open" option in the right click menu
to get it to open. This is a
winXP pro laptop and it was not doing this a few days ago, I imagine I must
have done something which I do not recall to cause this. Can someone please
tell
me how to repair this? it is interfering with my work to the nth degree. I
checked folder
options but could not find an item that I could relate to this problem.

Thanks,
Joan
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Click Start/Run and type this command to fix this problem:
(Tip from David Candy)

regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
 
Thanks for your help, Will, it worked. I'd like to know what may have
created the problem. The only thing I can rememeber changing was the Windows
Update and I swear that almost everytime I have an update something besides
the update changes in my PC. Joan
 
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