strange problem ive never seen before

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Ok i just re-installed Win XP pro and when i try to double click on my HDs
or optical drives i get the windows search menu instead.

If i right click i see that the search option is on top and not open. Now
before this i installed Acdsee (picture viewing program) and if i tried the
above that would open and if i right clicked one of my drives acdsee what
top of the list and below was search.

I was messing around with folder options getting it back to a more classic
windows look buti tried resetting defaults but no joy.


Help me its driving me mad and i don want to go through another install just
to get rid of something as stupid as this.

Bri

 

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Hi Bri,

A common problem with an easy fix:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"brian hopkinson" <brian.hopkinsonnospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Ok i just re-installed Win XP pro and when i try to double click on my HDs
> or optical drives i get the windows search menu instead.
>
> If i right click i see that the search option is on top and not open. Now
> before this i installed Acdsee (picture viewing program) and if i tried
> the above that would open and if i right clicked one of my drives acdsee
> what top of the list and below was search.
>
> I was messing around with folder options getting it back to a more classic
> windows look buti tried resetting defaults but no joy.
>
>
> Help me its driving me mad and i don want to go through another install
> just to get rid of something as stupid as this.
>
> Bri
>

 

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"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Bri,
>
> A common problem with an easy fix:
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm
>
> --
> Best of Luck,

Hi Rick


Having never messed with the registery and VB scripts , i click on the link
and it gives me a text document. but from what i can gather im suppsed to
run this VB script but tbh i havent a clue how to do this.


Bri

 

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Forget the above reply , i was using firefox and it would just open the file
for me. Went back to IE and its all worked great.

Thanks a bunch for that


Bri

 

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Hi,

You're welcome.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"brian hopkinson" <brian.hopkinsonnospam@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:3d11a8F6rd7erU1@individual.net...
> Forget the above reply , i was using firefox and it would just open the
> file for me. Went back to IE and its all worked great.
>
> Thanks a bunch for that
>
>
> Bri
>