Re: Clicking the Hard Drive Icon

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT. Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes

In the Classes key, see if there is a Drive sub-key. If so, right click the Drive sub-key and select Export. Then right click it again and select Delete. Reboot and see if this resolves your issue.

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"He_Haa" <HeHaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1E14997D-9A80-4964-996D-57BF11934036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

HI!
thanks for the replay, but unfortunately its not working, i've tried all 2
commands on command prompy + download the registry and installed it, but
still the problem is same, its not opening.

Kindly do help me, i am just fed up of writting the drive name in adress bar
to open it . :(


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"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

Try the following, in order:

Open a Command Prompt window and enter

REGSVR32 /I /S SHELL32.DLL

If that doesn't work, in a Command Prompt window enter:

ASSOC DRIVE=DRIVE

And last, but not least, see www.dougknox.com, Win XP Fixes, File
Association Fixes, Drive Association Fix.

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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"He_Haa" <He_Haa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1318C68B-0558-4BDA-A520-9E77203E2B8B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi!
> I'm facing the same problem, and its very irritating, whenever i want > to
> open a drive it considers my drive as a file and open a dialog box > "Open
> With" to select the program to open the file.
> When i right click it, and select the open tab, there is no open tab, > both
> Open And Explore are converted into some unreadable language like some
> virus
> language.
>
> Kindly help me bbecause its irritating me a lot.
>
>
> Waiting


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