[waysmills]

Hello folks...

A strange thing - probably a setting somewhere - happens when I double click on one of my hard drives (actually a partitioned drive). Instead of openning as a folder would, showing its contents, in gives me the search reults window.

Drives me crazy. Tried several things, but need to find the source of the problem...

Hope someone knows the solution!

Thanks

WaysMills

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Wow! I got the exact same problem! Only recently started happening and I too cannot figure out how to solve it. One thing I did notice though is if I right click drive it shows 'search...' at the top instead of 'open'.

Come on fella's......put us out of our misery!

[roysterman]

Wow! I got the exact same problem! Only recently started happening and I too cannot figure out how to solve it. One thing I did notice though is if I right click drive it shows 'search...' at the top instead of 'open'.

Come on fella's......put us out of our misery!

[gerryf]

start > run, type
regedit
<enter>


navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell key, then look in the right pane...

The only entry should be DeFAULT, with a type of REG-SZ and a DATA of NONE.....

if there are more than one, delete it....if the only one there has a different DATA value, double click it and replace what is there with NONE

[roysterman]

YIPPEEEE......IT WORKED!!!!!

Uhhum.....Thank U very much kind Sir.


Alternatively (took a while to find):


HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\drive\shell

Set the value for each of these keys to the word: none


Does this make me an official Geek ? :

Edited by roysterman, 17 May 2005 - 10:13 AM.

[waysmills]

You guys are too good! Thanks for solving a miserable problem!
Setting

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shell data value to NONE didn't work,

so I tried setting

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\drive\shell

to NONE and it did the trick.