for anyone else with Folder Options all greyed out

I once reinstalled XP just because the options in Folder Options>File Types

were ALL greyed out, it was so annoying. However here's one possible

solution (it seemed to work for me, but I cannot be sure), for anyone else

with the same issue. Just copy and paste the following text into Notepad,

save as *.reg (NOT as *.txt, so that it is saved as a regfile not a text

document) and then rightclick it and select "Merge" to add it to the

Registry. Then reboot:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explo

rer]

"NoFileAssociate"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explor

er]

"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:00000091

"NoFolderOptions"=dword:00000000

"NoFileAssociate"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]

@="none"

[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,00,74,00,2

5,\

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"

You might want to create a System Restore point prior to merging this reg

file, as a precaution.

Tim