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Old February 14th, 2002 Top | #1
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When i left click a folder it opens in a DOS prompt window? At the moment I have to right click then put open! Does anybody know how i can fix this?
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Old February 14th, 2002 Top | #2
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Have you tried the help and support prog. It deals with all hardware problems including the mouse. Use the troulbe shooter in the prog.
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Old February 14th, 2002 Top | #3
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It is not the mouse, I think it is some sort of tweak program maybe that I have installed because it worked ok before! But I cant find any settings anywhere to change it back! :confused:
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Old February 14th, 2002 Top | #4
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does the tweak program have a "restore settings" function? it should have something like that in case something like this happens.
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Old February 14th, 2002 Top | #5
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That is my problem I have installed so much stuff I have no idea what I have installed to make it like this
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Old February 15th, 2002 Top | #6
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Gatecrasher

I had a similar problem but it was with all my drives. I was left clicking on the drives and it was opening a Search window rather than givin me the content of the drive.

The solution was on the Regedit

You can try:

Start
Run
Regedit
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Open Directory
One click on Shell
Make sure that the default key REG_SZ is on "none"

If it is not, right click on the key, choose Modify and write none in the field......

That could be the solution but make sure that you backup your registry before doing it......

Hoping that will help.......take care
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Old February 15th, 2002 Top | #7
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thanks for replying, i ahve tryed what u suggested with no luck , It only happens on folders with me btw all programs open ok and text files etc etc, its just the folder!
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Old February 15th, 2002 Top | #8
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Go to run and type sfc

That will run the system file checker


this is good also

http://www.xp-erience.org/article.php?sid=1009



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Old February 15th, 2002 Top | #9
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fixed now , thanks to the peeps over at NeoWin! It turns out its because of changing the folder icons knackers up the registry values, if any1 is having same problem take a look at the neowin forums!
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