Drive opens in new window on double click in windows XP

by Rohit on February 1, 2008

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Trouble:

One of our readers reported, when ever he double clicks on any of the drive to open, it opens automatically in new window.

As we all know the expected behaviour is that each drive opens in the same window until a user has explicitly set the option Open Each Folder In Its Own Window. under File menu >> Tools >> Folder Options in General.

Why It drive opens in new window?

It happens when a program or virus tries to edit the File Folder or Drive shell entries to add more context menu items and set them as default for double click action.

Lets see how we can fix this.


Fix:

First Method:

1. Open Start >> Run and type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll

2. press ok

3. You will see a message DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shell32.dll succeeded

4. that’s it

Second Method:

1. Open Start >> Run and type regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Directory/Shell



3. Double click the default key type none and press ok.

4. now navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Drive/Shell.

5. Double click the default key type none and press ok.

Third Method:

If you don’t want to play with the registry ,you can run the following command instead at

Run Prompt: ( Open Start >> Run )

reg add hkcr\drive\shell /ve /d none /f” (without double quotes)

We hope at least one of the above method may work for you to fix the trouble, if not please let us know.

Also See : Not able to open hard disk by double click.

Update:

We have just compiled a registry tweak, so if none of the above given methods works for you, then try downloading this registry file from here and merge it into your registry by double clicking the file.

After merging the registry file you may need to restart your system, so that the changes can reflect

Note: If still after following the above you are not able to solve the problem then update your antivirus and run a complete scan and make your system virus free. Click here to scan with Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool


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punit June 1, 2010 at 12:03 am

thanks sir…..

shiva July 8, 2010 at 4:25 pm

1. Open Start>>Run and type cmd and press enter. This will open a command prompt window. On this command prompt window type the following steps.

2. type cd\

3. type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf

4. type del autorun.inf

5. now type d: and press enter for d: drive partition. Now repeat steps 3 and 4. Similarly repeat step 5 for all your hard disk partition.

Restart your system and your trouble will be fixed.

100% success

belive it.

Chetan Thakur July 14, 2010 at 12:53 pm

I tried all the three ways and restarted my PC , the problem was solved in case of Local disk C; and rest were the same tell me what to do

G H August 5, 2010 at 11:03 pm

Reviewing the Registry fix(link) provided in the ” UPDATE:” paragraph, my system was identical EXCEPT for the last line of registry fix in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell. My system default was set to “open” (@=”open”), instead of the desired default of “-” (@=”-”). Changing this one key fixed the problem.

Thanks

Luca August 11, 2010 at 7:41 pm

Second method works perfectly!

Thanks!

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