Topic: Windows Explorer Woes

[ronjonp]

Not really CAD related but this has been bugging me for a while.....In windows explorer I can't get the folders to open in the same window. I've gone to Tools>Folder Options>General>and checked "open each folder in same window". They will open fine if I go to View>Explorer Bar>and set it to folders.....but I have to browse on the explorer bar side. If I click on the folders to the right of the explorer bar they open up in a separate window! This all happened after I added a register dll to my right click using this --->REGEDIT4
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RegDLL]
@="Re&gister DLL"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\RegDLL\command]
@="regsvr32 %1"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\UnregDLL]
@="&Unregister DLL"
 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\UnregDLL\command]
@="regsvr32 /u %1"


Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this....I'm out of ideas and patience.

Thanks,

Ron

BTW.....running XP Pro

[Keith™]

Well, explorer SHOULD never open the folder in a new window even if the option is selected. Unless of course that is a new "feature" of XP that I am not aware of...

[Craig]

You must have changed something to make it do that. I use XP pro and mine only opens in the original window.
Have you tried removing you register dll's to see if it goes back to normal?

[ronjonp]

If anybody cares.......

I got it. These are the keys that control how the folders open (got hosed somehow and moved from default):

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
  65,00,20,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,\
  00,25,00,4c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"

I also had to delete this entry:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explore]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explore\command]
@="explorer.exe \"%1\""