Application not found when opening folders in Explorer

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Phillip Corcoran
Better Explorer is not a theme, it's a replacement file manager for Windows Explorer. You should always make sure you know what you are installing and what it does.

When you installed BE, it replaced Windows Explorer as the default file manager by changing some registry entries.

When you uninstalled BE, those registry changes were not reversed, so Windows is still looking for BE. Hence the error "Application not found".

Go here and scroll down to "Issues with Windows Explorer after uninstalling?"
http://better-explorer.com/news/
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Phillip Corcoran

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Better Explorer is not a theme, it's a replacement file manager for Windows Explorer. You should always make sure you know what you are installing and what it does.

When you installed BE, it replaced Windows Explorer as the default file manager by changing some registry entries.

When you uninstalled BE, those registry changes were not reversed, so Windows is still looking for BE. Hence the error "Application not found".

Go here and scroll down to "Issues with Windows Explorer after uninstalling?"
http://better-explorer.com/news/
 
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Tiago Teles

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Thanks for the quick awnser :3
Sadly it didn't fix my problem, soo i installed better explorer again, it works fine.
The problem is that I want to uninstall it, again.
This is what happens when I try to uninstall it.
http://prntscr.com/7ja3dk
I'm trying to do it thru control panel.
This happened last time too, soo since I thought it was kind of a scam virus thing, I deleted it's path.("C:/Better Explorer" or something like that)
Now thinking about it, it wasn't a great idea, if it was an acctual scam/virus, it would aalready have copied itself somewhere else.
I also used ComboFix(I used it because I found a thread that was basicly describing my problem),Recuva and this thing"http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html" in between the failed uninstall, and me beeing able to go open explorer.exe(last one did it).

Would there be any other advice you could give me?
Thanks again for the quick awnser, me :)


It wooorrrrkkkkssss!!!!!!!!!
I just Re-downloaded the launcher/installer of better explorer, and pressed repair, and then remove!
Everything works fine and dandy.
Thanks AGAIN for the help, meeee \(ˆ˚ˆ)/ (woooohooooo)
 
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