Unable to double click on external Drive

[AJS]

Hi, I am suddenly unable to open an external drive by double clicking its
drive letter. I have to right click and click on open.
Any suggestions why that is?
Thanks

 

[JF]

*Bonjour AJS * !

Hi, I am suddenly unable to open an external drive by double clicking its
drive letter. I have to right click and click on open.
Any suggestions why that is?
Thanks

Do you see any Autorun.inf file on this Volume ?
Can be Hide ans System, see Folders Options.

Or in a Console (Start>Run>cmd) :

attrib -h -s -r F:\autorun.inf

(assuming your external drive is F)

Rename Autorun.inf to Autorun.txt and copy the text here.
Thanks.

Example of a bad Autorun.inf ==>

[AutoRun]
open=xn1i9x.com
shell\open\Command=xn1i9x.com
shell\explore\Command=xn1i9x.com

More informations :
http://www.google.com/search?q=xn1i9x.com

Protections :

Tell the system to not read Autorun.inf
http://www.google.com/search?q=IniFileMapping+Autorun.inf

Avoid using a PC with administrator privileges.
So autorun.inf is ignored.

Check every drive for virus and so.

To protect a volume, you can create a FOLDER named autorun.inf
Make it Hide, System ans ReadOnly :
F:
attrib +h +s +r autorun.inf

Then it will be difficult to write a new FILE with that name.

 

[AJS]

Thanks, but there is no autorun.inf file


| *Bonjour AJS * !
| <|
| > Hi, I am suddenly unable to open an external drive by double clicking
its
| > drive letter. I have to right click and click on open.
| > Any suggestions why that is?
| > Thanks
|
| Do you see any Autorun.inf file on this Volume ?
| Can be Hide ans System, see Folders Options.
|
| Or in a Console (Start>Run>cmd) :
|
| attrib -h -s -r F:\autorun.inf
|
| (assuming your external drive is F)
|
| Rename Autorun.inf to Autorun.txt and copy the text here.
| Thanks.
|
| Example of a bad Autorun.inf ==>
|
| [AutoRun]
| open=xn1i9x.com
| shell\open\Command=xn1i9x.com
| shell\explore\Command=xn1i9x.com
|
| More informations :
| http://www.google.com/search?q=xn1i9x.com
|
| Protections :
|
| Tell the system to not read Autorun.inf
| http://www.google.com/search?q=IniFileMapping+Autorun.inf
|
| Avoid using a PC with administrator privileges.
| So autorun.inf is ignored.
|
| Check every drive for virus and so.
|
| To protect a volume, you can create a FOLDER named autorun.inf
| Make it Hide, System ans ReadOnly :
| F:
| attrib +h +s +r autorun.inf
|
| Then it will be difficult to write a new FILE with that name.
|
| --
| Regards, Jean-François
|
|

 

[JF]

*Bonjour AJS * !

Thanks, but there is no autorun.inf file

Start>Run>regsvr32 /i shell32

Check these (by default) Values which must be equal to "none"
HKCR\Directory\shell (by default)=none
HKCR\Drive\shell (by default)=none

 

[AJS]

Thanks,

Found it.
This is what is says in notepad:
[autorun]
shellexecute=wscript.exe pagefile.sys.vbs


| *Bonjour AJS * !
| <|
| > Thanks, but there is no autorun.inf file
|
| Start>Run>regsvr32 /i shell32
|
| Check these (by default) Values which must be equal to "none"
| HKCR\Directory\shell (by default)=none
| HKCR\Drive\shell (by default)=none
|
| --
| Regards, Jean-François
|
|

 

[AJS]

Thanks,
I now am able to double click.
Good work!

| *Bonjour AJS * !
| <|
| > Thanks, but there is no autorun.inf file
|
| Start>Run>regsvr32 /i shell32
|
| Check these (by default) Values which must be equal to "none"
| HKCR\Directory\shell (by default)=none
| HKCR\Drive\shell (by default)=none
|
| --
| Regards, Jean-François
|
|

 

[JF]

*Bonjour AJS * !

Thanks,
I now am able to double click.
Good work!

Thank you again for the feed-back.
Bonne continuation !