Problem With opening Folders, Drives, Etc

[Mutant_Donkey]

can anyone running windows xp, or anyone with an idea of whats going on help me find the "program used to perform action" for a standard folder in windows? the action got corrupted, and deleted so i tried making a new open with explorer.exe. that brings up a new window, so i cant click the back button. after the original open got corrupted, it opened everything in a **** command window, so please i need help.


look at screenshot to see what i need, thanks :t

[AllGamer]

yes is rather simple actually

What you need is like a Brood transfusion

but in XP that is a Registry Transfusion ;)

get someone to export you that registry settings

under Classes

and you only need to import it

and you are done, and fixed.

:D :t

[Mutant_Donkey]

please, can someone help me with that?

[BipolarBill]

There's a very common worm (magistr) which causes that sort of behavior - especially after it has bee cleaned from the system. Scan that system!

[Mutant_Donkey]

i can assure you no worm/virus swept by, but i am scanning with housecall, updated virus definitions now just to play safe. i recently tried to backup the classes chunk with an old reg backup i did with ERDNT over a month ago, still no work.

[AllGamer]

Bill might be on the right track

Do you have any AV software?
if not you can visit

www.SARC.com

and run their free one

they have tool to remove the Magistrate also.

all FREE

[Mutant_Donkey]

scan is complete, no viruses found.

[AllGamer]

then ask someone with WinXP to give you a Registry Transfussion, for only that key.
:t

[Mutant_Donkey]

i ask.
i also ask for a simpler way, to give me the name of program used to complete the function.

[BipolarBill]

In the registry, the file type must be defined as "exefile" for .EXE files in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

[BipolarBill]

look:

[Mutant_Donkey]

:confused: that is for exe though, i am looking for folder

[Mutant_Donkey]

this is the .folder association, empty though

[BipolarBill]

There is no .FOLDER key in this registry.

[Mutant_Donkey]

so then i am out of luck?


:(

[BipolarBill]

Do you have TWEAK UI on your system? If so, go to the Repair section and repair System Files and Associations.

[BipolarBill]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

[Mutant_Donkey]

thank you Bill. I will do that now.

[Mutant_Donkey]

i cannot find System Files and Associations selection in repair tab. you sure it is there?

[BipolarBill]

Ooh - maybe it's not. The old Tweak had it.

Have you disabled System Restore? If not, try that. You can also repair from CD by booting from it.

[Mutant_Donkey]

The "Repair Associations" button returns icons to their factory settings and restores the default associations for standard file types.

Use this button to repair such common problems as losing the "Install" command on the right-click context menu for .INF files.

This button is not available on Windows NT.

i disabled system restore. wont repairing from the cd re write all the system files i modified, like the logog, boot screen, and of course the beautiful theme, and other things? i would rather have someone using windows xp give me the program reference, as satated in my original reply

[BipolarBill]

No - repairing XP will not change anything. That's called reinstalling. ;)

[Mutant_Donkey]

i found answer: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

it worked. thanks for everyones contribution to the problem :) :t

[Mutant_Donkey]

can someone tell me the app to lanch a windows into a hard drive? same problem, except there is no registry file i know o f for thies.