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cdude
hi all,
just a post (couldn't reply via google after 30days of post hence the
new one) to add some more possibly helpful info to these posts:
Wes's link let me find this tool here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
which allowed me to step by step disable Shell extensions to find the
problem.
I too, was experiencing this "Open With" context menu opening another
"Open With" sub menu which did nothing and rendered "open with" useless
on my XP SP2 system. I have been searching for months for the solution
and finally figured it out using this tool from the link above here.
It turned out to be a shell extension installed by the Stuffit
archiving software which caused the problem for all extensions. It was
the culprit that ruined Open With in this circular fashion making it
useless. Disabling the 2 Stuffit shellexts restored Open With - (so I
also uninstalled Stuffit just to be safe). I'm just posting in the
event someone else out there has the same problem as me and wants to
fix it as all the other "Open With" fixes (at Kelly's Korner etc) did
nothing to this particular circular Open With followed by another Open
With submenu.
it was a bitch to figure out - but thankfully it turned out to be
simple and not some really messed up registry. Thanks Wes for your help
in tracking it down!
cdude
just a post (couldn't reply via google after 30days of post hence the
new one) to add some more possibly helpful info to these posts:
Wes's link let me find this tool here:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
which allowed me to step by step disable Shell extensions to find the
problem.
I too, was experiencing this "Open With" context menu opening another
"Open With" sub menu which did nothing and rendered "open with" useless
on my XP SP2 system. I have been searching for months for the solution
and finally figured it out using this tool from the link above here.
It turned out to be a shell extension installed by the Stuffit
archiving software which caused the problem for all extensions. It was
the culprit that ruined Open With in this circular fashion making it
useless. Disabling the 2 Stuffit shellexts restored Open With - (so I
also uninstalled Stuffit just to be safe). I'm just posting in the
event someone else out there has the same problem as me and wants to
fix it as all the other "Open With" fixes (at Kelly's Korner etc) did
nothing to this particular circular Open With followed by another Open
With submenu.
it was a bitch to figure out - but thankfully it turned out to be
simple and not some really messed up registry. Thanks Wes for your help
in tracking it down!
cdude