local drives don't open with double click

[Guest Cheng_van]

Hi,

My XP machine doesn't open local drives with double click. Instead

Open With dialogue box appears.

It also has serious file associations problems. MS Word files are

associated with Acrobat Reader and pdf vice versa. When I uninstalled

Acrobat Reader PDF files are associated with MS Word.

I tried the following patch.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_folder_open.vbs

But it didn't work.

Can somebody please help me?

Regards

Cheng

[Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Re: local drives don't open with double click

 

Hi Cheng,

 

Enable Windows Explorer to show all hidden and protected files. Find and delete the file named Autorun.inf (in the drive's root directory), and delete it. After doing so, make sure to logoff and login back.

 

If that does not help, see:

 

"Open With" dialog appears when double clicking on a mapped network drive in My Computer:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/223/1/Open-With-dialog-appears-when-double-clicking-on-a-mapped-network-drive-in-My-Computer.html

 

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Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

 

"Cheng_van" <chenkuttavan@gmail.com> wrote in message news:dfd39323-5364-437f-a2d7-7bd1da5060c6@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

My XP machine doesn't open local drives with double click. Instead

Open With dialogue box appears.

It also has serious file associations problems. MS Word files are

associated with Acrobat Reader and pdf vice versa. When I uninstalled

Acrobat Reader PDF files are associated with MS Word.

I tried the following patch.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_folder_open.vbs

But it didn't work.

Can somebody please help me?

Regards

Cheng

[Guest Cheng_van]

Re: local drives don't open with double click

 

Thanks Ramesh. Your suggestion worked. Mere deletion of autorun.inf

was enough.

Cheng

[Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Re: local drives don't open with double click

 

You're welcome Cheng.

 

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Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog

Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

 

"Cheng_van" <chenkuttavan@gmail.com> wrote in message news:d0667499-3dcd-4ffd-bd29-9604e1d0aeb7@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Thanks Ramesh. Your suggestion worked. Mere deletion of autorun.inf

was enough.

Cheng