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I've disabled auto run on the removable disk drives. When I double click

the icon in my computor or click "Open" I get the "open with" window. If

I choose "open with" in the rt click menu it opens right away????

What's going on...???

John

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RE: Open and "open with" interchanged?

 

 

When you Right A Click .. What is the First option

 

 

"John" wrote:

> I've disabled auto run on the removable disk drives. When I double click

> the icon in my computor or click "Open" I get the "open with" window. If

> I choose "open with" in the rt click menu it opens right away????

> What's going on...???

> John

>

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Devil_Himself wrote:

> When you Right A Click .. What is the First option

>

>

> "John" wrote:

>

>> I've disabled auto run on the removable disk drives. When I double click

>> the icon in my computor or click "Open" I get the "open with" window. If

>> I choose "open with" in the rt click menu it opens right away????

>> What's going on...???

>> John

>>

The first option is "open". When I click I get the "open with"

selection. Explorer isn't included so I have to browse. If I click "open

with " from the

The second is Explore. I get "open with" again and it closes by opening

an unrelated application.

Search is normal.

"Open With" opens the disk normally.

 

I had a virus recently, and I may have sneezed while doing a rededit?????

Guest Devil_Himself
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Re: Open and "open with" function interchanged?

 

Re: Open and "open with" function interchanged?

 

Have a Look at this Thread

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/624141-solved-cannot-open-local-disk.html

 

"John" wrote:

> Devil_Himself wrote:

> > When you Right A Click .. What is the First option

> >

> >

> > "John" wrote:

> >

> >> I've disabled auto run on the removable disk drives. When I double click

> >> the icon in my computor or click "Open" I get the "open with" window. If

> >> I choose "open with" in the rt click menu it opens right away????

> >> What's going on...???

> >> John

> >>

> The first option is "open". When I click I get the "open with"

> selection. Explorer isn't included so I have to browse. If I click "open

> with " from the

> The second is Explore. I get "open with" again and it closes by opening

> an unrelated application.

> Search is normal.

> "Open With" opens the disk normally.

>

> I had a virus recently, and I may have sneezed while doing a rededit?????

>

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Re: Open and "open with" function interchanged?

 

Re: Open and "open with" function interchanged?

 

Devil_Himself wrote:

> Have a Look at this Thread

> http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/624141-solved-cannot-open-local-disk.html

>

Thanks but how do I navigate to "F">>>>>>>?

1. Enter command prompt on WIN XP. HOW?

Click Start > Run > CMD

2. Navigate to drive C: HOW?

type cd\ >>>>>>>>>[i tried fd\ here..]

3. Type Dir /a

To show all files in root drive. Then identify the autorun.inf file (you

may find other autorun-named files there. You this same method to get

them out)

4. Type attrib autorun.inf

This will help you get the file attributes on the autorun.inf. Depending

on the outcome

(which can be ash, i.e. Archived, System file, Hidden), do the following:

5. Type attrib -a -s -h autorun.inf (assuming above result).

This will make the file a normal file

6. Type del autorun.inf

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Devil_Himself wrote:

> Have a Look at this Thread

> http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/624141-solved-cannot-open-local-disk.html

>

Thanks for that. I went through cmd cd\ C:\>f:

F:\>dir

Attrib auotrun.inf etc,etc and found

[[AutoRun]

open=ntdelect.com

;shell\open=Open(&O)

shell\open\Command=ntdelect.com

shell\open\Default=1

;shell\explore=Manager(&X)

shell\explore\Command=ntdelect.com]

Deleted file

 

I find the drives a little confusing as C and D (has the software

restore) have data, the others are just numbers until they get a (eg

flash card in them??)

 

I didn't have to do the task manager stuff.

 

Your advice:

Control Panel--> Folder Options--> File Types-->Drives--> Advanced -->

Set Default

was what fixed the problem. I didn't understand what to do initially,

but earlier I had added an "open" command (had been "find" and ""open

with")... I highlighted "open" and set that action as default.

 

Thanks a lot

John


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