D\clicking on a folder on Desktop opens the search window

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I don't know how it started.Everything was working fine a few days ago but now when I double click a folder on desktop outside Dopus, instead of opening the folder it opens the search window for that folder.Example:

When I right click the folder it shows that the default option for double clicking a folder is not "Open in Directory Opus" but "Search..."See:

How do I change this back to normal? :question:

Thanks

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This is probably the easiest way:

[ul][li]Go to Preferences - Launching Opus - Explorer Replacement[/li]
[li]Turn Explorer Replacement off completely[/li]
[li]OK the Preferences dialog[/li]
[li]Re-open the Preferences dialog and turn Explorer Replacement back on.[/li][/ul]

If that doesn't work then have a look at the All Folders file type's Actions and Context Menu tabs but be careful as messing around with them could make things worse. If in doubt post some screenshots here first so we can compare them to a normal system.

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Thanks for the reply leo.Turning the Explorer Replacement Off and then On didn't solve the problem.I am not sure what I should do with the All Folders file type's Actions and Context Menu tabs so I think I'll have to post some screen grabs here so you guys can tell me whats wrong with it.Here:

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That looks okay as well. I think we'll have to dig into the registry.

Please open regedit.exe and then navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder

right-click on Folder in the tree and choose Export and save it to a .reg file.

Then do the same with

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder

and save it to a second .reg file.

Then zip up the two .reg files and attach the zip in a reply. I'll take a look and should be able to send you back a file you can double-click to put things back to normal.

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OK I am attaching the files to this post.

Thanks
reg files.zip (1.68 KB)

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Those look okay to me.

I asked Jon @ GPSoft if he had any ideas and he said there's also a Directory type in addition to the Folder type. Maybe that's where the problem is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Directory

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[quote="leo"]Those look okay to me.

I asked Jon @ GPSoft if he had any ideas and he said there's also a Directory type in addition to the Folder type. Maybe that's where the problem is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Directory[/quote]

I really appreciate your help leo.Here are the next two reg files.
reg files 2.zip (1.74 KB)

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Here's a fix for you.

Your HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell has default value "" (i.e. an empty string) while it is normally "none" (a string that literally says none, rather than no string at all).

On XP (but not Vista, which confused me a first), this seems to result in the first verb being called, Find in his case.

The attached .reg file (in the zip) will set the value to "none" and should solve the problem. I checked this out on my XP machine.
fix.zip (257 Bytes)

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Your fix did the trick :smiley: Thanks a lot.Here is the result: