Run a free scan for common Windows errors

Just do this!!!
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 at 9:53 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by West_Ninja (17 messages posted)
I rolled all the help tips into one easy to use registry entry. Here is how to e
nter
it:
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Open Notepad
Copy the lengthy set of text at the bottom of this thread into it.
Save it to your desktop as a .reg file
Run the file you just made
click "yes"

And that my friends will make your browser use the 'Open' command rather then 'S
earch...'
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Here is what you copy
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@="Open"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Explore]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Explore\command]
@="%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe /e,/root,\"%1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Explore\ddeexec]
@="[ExploreFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Explore\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Explore\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00000080
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec]
@="[FindFolder(\"%l\", %I)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open\command]
@="%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe /idlist"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open\ddeexec]

@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"

"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Openddeexec]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Openddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]
@="open"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000022
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000021
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,\
00,25,00,49,00,2c,00,25,00,4c,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec]
@="[ExploreFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,\
00,25,00,4c,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@="open_[1]"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00000080
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec]
@="[FindFolder(\"%l\", %I)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\open\command]
@="%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\open\ddeexec]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"