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Hi,

Dopus seems to have lost its ability to allow me to click on a hard drive in the 'My Computer' screen and then explore the hard drive.

When I do this it comes up with an error message

"The System Cannot Find the Device Specificied"

and then loads a Windows Explorer window to explore the said hard drive. Obviously, I do not want to use Windows Explorer instead.

If I instead type the hard drive ("K:")into the location bar, Dopus is perfectly happy.

I have just upgraded to the latest version, but it has not solved this problem.

Any suggestions?

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Try this:
[ul][li]Go to Prefs / Misc / Explorer Replacement.[/li]
[li]Turning off Explorer Replacement and click Apply.[/li]
[li]Turn it back on and click Apply again.[/li][/ul]That may repair the registry settings.

If not, which version of Windows are you using?

Have you modified the Drive file type at all?

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Heya,

I tried what you suggested and it didn't work I'm afraid.

It is Windows XP - and I have not edited the drive type recently.

This fault suddenly appeared one day and I thought I might have a hard drive failure ('System Device not Found') but it was actually Opus.

Any other ideas? It seems a bit odd to me - to open up in windows explorer instead.

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Have a look at the Drive filetype. Maybe something else has edited it.

Mine has no Actions, Events or Context Menu items defined, except for the Find action.

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I doubt it is anything to do with a Drive type - all of the hard drives, the CD ROM drive give the same answer. When I click on Control Panel it says in a windows titled "My Computer"

"Windows cannot find '(null)'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the STart buttom, and then click Search."

Does this help at all?

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CD ROM drives may also use the Drive filetype, but Control Panel shouldn't...

I would try reinstalling Opus over the top of your existing install. Do a settings export first, just in case, but it shouldn't overwrite any existing settings. The reinstall might repair registry settings.

Another thing to check: If you right-click a drive in My Computer, do any of the menu options work? (Open and Explorer should be like double-clicking, if Explorer Replacement is enabled, while Open in Directory Opus should open the drives in a new Opus window.)

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The issue you speak of has nothing to do with Opus, rather a problem on the underlying Explorer system. This is what I've come across...

[quote]Just to let everyone know.... While surfing through the internet I found someone who solved this problem and has a way to fix it. There are 2 registry keys in the registry that are causing the problem. It affects the explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe files.

This is the key that needs to be deleted...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\iexplorer.exe

Once these keys are deleted the desktop and internet explorer should come back to life.[/quote]

Thanks go to whoever found this information and I hope this will be a benefit to others later in the future.

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cheers for the suggestions guys:

I tried to find the regkeys you suggested but they didn't exist at all.

When I right click in My Computer I can do everything but Open or Explore (Explore opens up Windows Explorer, while Open just gives the error message).

I'll uninstall and try again from scratch to see what happens....

Update: Reinstalling didn't work.... guess it will only be resolved when I decide to reinstall the OS.

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Would still be nice to try and figure out what is causing this... before you reinstall your OS, could you export the whole registry as a backup and check things out fo what the open shell action has to say for the drive type compared to how things look 'post-reinstall'?