Mapped Drive opens with Search Companion but no files or folders

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Timma

Normally when you open a mapped drive in MyComputer, you double click the
desired drive icon and a window full of files and folders appears.

When I attempt to open a mapped drive in MyComputer by double clicking on
it, it opens a window that displays the search companion along the left hand
side, and the middle of the screen where you'd normally see files and folders
is blank.

If I open the mapped drive by right clicking on it and selecting "open," it
displays the normal view.

Any suggestions?
 
Nevermind. I figured it out. I changed the default value of
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shell to "none."
It was previously set to "find."

"Timma" wrote:

> Normally when you open a mapped drive in MyComputer, you double click the
> desired drive icon and a window full of files and folders appears.
>
> When I attempt to open a mapped drive in MyComputer by double clicking on
> it, it opens a window that displays the search companion along the left hand
> side, and the middle of the screen where you'd normally see files and folders
> is blank.
>
> If I open the mapped drive by right clicking on it and selecting "open," it
> displays the normal view.
>
> Any suggestions?
 
Double click on c drive, search appears

Hi, I have a problem but not seriously. Everytime I open my computer then go
to Desktop and Open My Computer. it seems everytime i double click the drive
c or drive d or other map network drives its automatically search appears and
it does not open. i hardly try to right click on it and open. And when i
right click search appears on top of the box. Can u please help me get rid of
this.. Thank you!
 
Re: Double click on c drive, search appears

Kris wrote:
> Hi, I have a problem but not seriously. I go
> to Desktop and Open My Computer. It seems every time I double-click the drive
> C or drive D or other mapped network drives, automatically search appears and
> it does not open. I try to right-click on it and open, and when I
> right-click, search appears on top of the box. Can you please help me get rid of
> this? Thank you!

Search opens when double clicking a folder. See Line #18
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/searchwindow.htm

Fix File Associations. Try the Drive fix.
http://dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

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Joe =o)
 
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