Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to OpenWith..." window

[Guest Rob Gordon]

Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to OpenWith..." window

 

I have an odd one,

 

I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a

prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

 

This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where

this would be.

 

Any ideas?

[Guest Karl Snooks]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Rob,

Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

 

karl snooks

 

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

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|I have an odd one,

|

| I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a

| prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

| being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

|

| This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where

| this would be.

|

| Any ideas?

[Guest Rob Gordon]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program toOpen With..." window

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program toOpen With..." window

 

Karl,

 

You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"

on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I

don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system file.

 

 

Karl Snooks wrote:

> Rob,

> Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

>

> karl snooks

>

> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

> news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> |I have an odd one,

> |

> | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a

> | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

> | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

> |

> | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where

> | this would be.

> |

> | Any ideas?

>

>

[Guest Karl Snooks]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Rob,

Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first

attrib /?

This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

 

With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

 

Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

 

Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

 

karl snooks

 

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

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| Karl,

|

| You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"

| on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I

| don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system

file.

|

|

| Karl Snooks wrote:

| > Rob,

| > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

| >

| > karl snooks

| >

| > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

| > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

| > |I have an odd one,

| > |

| > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get

a

| > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

| > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

| > |

| > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue

where

| > | this would be.

| > |

| > | Any ideas?

| >

| >

[Guest Rob Gordon]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program toOpen With..." window

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program toOpen With..." window

 

Worked perfectly. Thanks so much, Karl.

 

Robert

 

Karl Snooks wrote:

> Rob,

> Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first

> attrib /?

> This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

>

> With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

>

> Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

>

> Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

>

> karl snooks

>

> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

> news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...

> | Karl,

> |

> | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"

> | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I

> | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system

> file.

> |

> |

> | Karl Snooks wrote:

> | > Rob,

> | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

> | >

> | > karl snooks

> | >

> | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

> | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> | > |I have an odd one,

> | > |

> | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get

> a

> | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

> | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

> | > |

> | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue

> where

> | > | this would be.

> | > |

> | > | Any ideas?

> | >

> | >

>

>

[Guest Karl Snooks]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to Open With..." window

 

Rob,

Great. Glad to have been of assistance.

karl

 

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

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| Worked perfectly. Thanks so much, Karl.

|

| Robert

|

| Karl Snooks wrote:

| > Rob,

| > Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first

| > attrib /?

| > This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

| >

| > With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

| >

| > Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

| >

| > Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

| >

| > karl snooks

| >

| > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

| > news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...

| > | Karl,

| > |

| > | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir

/a"

| > | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I

| > | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system

| > file.

| > |

| > |

| > | Karl Snooks wrote:

| > | > Rob,

| > | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

| > | >

| > | > karl snooks

| > | >

| > | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

| > | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

| > | > |I have an odd one,

| > | > |

| > | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:,

get

| > a

| > | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of

just

| > | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

| > | > |

| > | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue

| > where

| > | > | this would be.

| > | > |

| > | > | Any ideas?

| > | >

| > | >

| >

| >

[Guest bdon91]

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to O

 

Re: Double-clicking C: drive, prompts me with "Choose Program to O

 

I'm not that familiar with the dos commands, but I'm having the same problem

when trying to open my two hard drives from "My Computer". Is there a way to

remove the autorun.inf from the c: root without using dos commands?

 

"Karl Snooks" wrote:

> Rob,

> Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first

> attrib /?

> This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

>

> With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

>

> Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

>

> Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

>

> karl snooks

>

> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

> news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...

> | Karl,

> |

> | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"

> | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I

> | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system

> file.

> |

> |

> | Karl Snooks wrote:

> | > Rob,

> | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

> | >

> | > karl snooks

> | >

> | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

> | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> | > |I have an odd one,

> | > |

> | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get

> a

> | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just

> | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

> | > |

> | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue

> where

> | > | this would be.

> | > |

> | > | Any ideas?

> | >

> | >

>

>

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