Double click on drive in My Computer opens Search or shows Open With in Windows XP

Sometimes double clicking on drive shows "open with" window as shown in the image



 To fix this issue:

Go to Start menu | Run
Type Regedit

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 as shown in the image



HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{30bd6510-e969-11de-a5e9-806d6172696f}



Delete  {30bd6510-e969-11de-a5e9-806d6172696f} in the above key.


Delete all keys that start with {.........} with + sign beside them (CLSID values) under Mountpoints2.

Search Window opens when you double click on a drive



Sometimes double clicking on a drive in My Computer opens "Search" Window as shown in the image

To resolve this:

To fix this:

Go to Start | Run Type regedit

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell as shown in the image


In the right window pane locate the value Default  REG_SZ  find
Double click on the value and change it to none

2 comments:

clc said...

Hello Mr.madev
how to ceart recovery console........
update ur website.....

madhav said...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654 please follow this article it tells you how to install recovery console in xp