[RICEric]

I recently got rid of a worm on my external drive, but now my external drive won't open normally.
I can open my local disk perfectly fine, it's just my external drive.

When I double click the Icon for my external drive, instead of going to a new window with the list of files in it, it asks me what to open the drive with.

"Choose the program you want to use to open this file"

I've also noticed that when I right click my external drive, the word in bold is Auto. But for my local disk which works fine, when i right click it, the word in bold is Open
However, when i right click the external drive, I can still select Open and go to the files.

Is there a way to change the bold lettering so that when I double click it, it "Opens" instead of "Auto"?
Thanks

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Try this:

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[Kniht]

Try this:

Download and apply the "Directory" and "Folder" association fixes from this URL:

http://www.dougknox..../file_assoc.htm

[RICEric]

Try this:

Download and apply the "Directory" and "Folder" association fixes from this URL:

http://www.dougknox..../file_assoc.htm

Thanks, just tried it. But nothing has changed.

[RICEric]

Update:
I've found out that its just my computer that has this problem. It doesn't happen on my sister's computer.

[1101doc]

Try this: Shutdown. Turn off and unplug exterior drive. Boot computer without exterior drive. Wait until system achieves idle. Shutdown again. Reboot. At system idle, plug in exterior drive turned off. Wait for windows to find the new USB device. Once that is done, turn the drive on. Wait for Windows again. If you have autoplay enabled globally, the new drive will likely run to display the root folder. Once recognized by Windows, that can be changed in the drive's properties dialog.