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Double-click opens search instead of folder
Q. When I create a new folder on the desktop and then try to open it by double-clicking, it opens up the Search
Companion. I have to right click the shortcut and then left click on Open or Explore to be able to simply view the
contents of the folder. Any thoughts? No one around here can make a guess.
A. According to Microsoft, this behavior can occur when you open the Edit File Type dialog box for the Drive or File Folder
registered file types.
For example, say you were trying to add the Print Directory feature to a folder in XP. This change could cause the
problem you are describing.
Microsoft acknowledges that this is a problem in Knowledge Base article #321379 and offers the following fix:
1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate and then click the Default value under the following keys in the registry if this problem occurs with
folders:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
If this problem occurs with drives:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
3. Click Modify on the Edit menu.
4. Type none in the Value data box, and then click OK.
5. Quit Registry Editor.
I have also read on a few reputable sites of a quick fix that involves opening a command prompt and typing the following:
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
Start with the simple fix first unless you are completely comfortable editing your registry. If you do end up editing your

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Joshua Simmons says:
November 10, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Thanks Man That helps Out Alot
Joe Blow says:
January 7, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Dude, thanks for the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fix. The regedit solution wasnt working.
Windows just did that screw up on its own.
Thanks.
Jeff says:
February 27, 2006 at 4:37 pm
After fiddling unsuccessfully with views and control panel folder options, your simple command pasted into the run box, on the start menu, did the trick. Thanks for ending a long
time source of frustration with my desktop folders.
Michael says:
March 7, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I just wanted to sy thanks, Jay Lee I did a google search for this error, came across your fix and it worked perfectly!!! I love the internet.
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simon says:
March 15, 2006 at 6:25 am
Thanks the regsvr32 fix worked!
Lisa says:
March 15, 2006 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the help. It took 2 minutes to fix my problem. I wouldnt have wasted 2 1/2 hours trying to fix this problem if I would have just done a google search from the start.
Microsoft was no help at all.
Thanks again.
Jason says:
March 21, 2006 at 5:17 am
Worked on my search open problem as well. Thanks.
Mark says:
April 17, 2006 at 6:58 pm
You are indeed saviour to so many of us =P
Cindy says:
April 18, 2006 at 11:27 pm
This is seriously the best help. Gah, the search popping up was so freakin annoying! I thank you~!
Blake says:
May 18, 2006 at 1:32 pm
That command prompt info that you posted is the best soluton for this problem ever. Not sure where you got that but way to go.
Hans F says:
May 23, 2006 at 4:15 am
Thanks! Your solution worked like a charm! The problem drove me crazy
Chip says:
May 23, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Thank youthat was driving me crazy!
Dino DuGuay says:
May 25, 2006 at 12:51 am
This piece of advice prevented me from formating my hard drive and re-installing windows!
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Thank you! You will now be added to my list of heroes.
JJ says:
May 28, 2006 at 1:50 am
The command prompt solution worked brilliantly, thank you so much. When will Microsoft get it right, I have sat here for hours trying to work it out and your fix did it in seconds!
Woohoooooo!!
JS says:
June 9, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Thankyou the command prompt (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly
Marcus Fitzpatrick says:
June 21, 2006 at 10:32 am
The registry hack worked for me first time round.
Ive bookmarked this page it case it happens again!! Thank you for that information it has saved me hours of frustrating fiddling.
Pravin says:
June 23, 2006 at 1:25 am
Thanks a bunch for that simple line bro. Love the net!
Sandy says:
June 28, 2006 at 6:37 am
Thanks the command prompt solution was fantastic. Solved it instantly!
Esteban says:
July 22, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Jay Lee, I owe ya a favor! The regsvr32 line did the trick! This problem bugged me for more than a month because I was searching for something to fix it without hacking (and
probably FUBAR-ing) the registry. Dont know where you uncovered the fix, but man, you dooded it!! Thanks much, Jay.
Toni Marie Guggenbickler says:
July 24, 2006 at 9:27 am
Didnt know what Id done to deserve that, it was really irratating. thanks for command prompt tip
Patrick says:
July 27, 2006 at 11:10 am
Add my 2 cents Thanks!! I did exactly that added the print directory. I love that Microsoft will tell you how to break something, but not fix it! Why isnt printing an explorer
window a default option?
Sorry for the bitching about Microsoft, thanks for the fix!!
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Umesh India says:
July 28, 2006 at 7:34 am
Thanks so much man, this did the trick. you are welcome to come to india and have samosa and chutney with me at my place.
JIM says:
August 3, 2006 at 10:15 am
The quick fix did the trick. Thanks a lot.
Jim
wil says:
August 7, 2006 at 4:29 am
Cheers mate! the copy paste didnt work. but, 30 seconds in my reg fixed everything, I thought I was going to hemhorrage there for a while.
wil.mazerolle
Joey says:
August 11, 2006 at 7:44 am
Man thanks a million.. the quick fix is FANTASTIC!! LOL
marc says:
August 19, 2006 at 9:16 pm
I want to also thank you for that command prompt script. It also solved an extraordinarily annoying and ongoing problem for me. Thank you so much.
Doug says:
August 20, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Thank you the regedit solution worked but I have no idea how it got started
Manikandan says:
August 23, 2006 at 4:33 am
Super..perfectly fine.. thanks a million
Karen says:
September 4, 2006 at 8:56 pm
That little trick with the command prompt was FAST and saved me the anxiety of messing with the registry. Wow thanks!!
cee says:
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thanks so much!!!! life saver!
ani says:
WOW!!! Thank you!
As written by Lisa above: I wouldnt have wasted *hours* trying to fix this problem if I would have just done a google search from the start. Microsoft was no help at all.
Like everyone else here, BIG thank you!
and I wish Id done the google search earlier!
Phil says:
September 23, 2006 at 10:10 am
Thanks a lot Jay. Your regedit instructions got me sorted in no time.
Windows XP Professional 64 bit.
Jim says:
Your command prompt suggestion worked a treat in under three seconds and all this after spending hours searching through Microsofts help pages with no success.
The search companion popping up was driving me crazy.
Grazi!
Wesley Bishop says:
WORKS!!!! Thanks alot
Tal says:
thanks for the command option fixed a 2 year problem in seconds!
shy says:
thanks a lot dude, the regsvr32 /i shell32.dl works perfect!!
Ed says:
October 7, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Thanks. The regsvr32 solution has solved a problem which had plagued me for 18 months.
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Andrea says:
worked like a dream thank you!
Matt says:
October 12, 2006 at 7:59 am
Fantastic. Fixed a year-long problem for me, also.
Thanks so much!
Gonalo says:
works very well
thanks for sharing.
G.
Edwin says:
Hi,
This saved me a lot of time and i really like to thank you for this.
Keep your site posted so that techs like me working on desktop issues can fix machines in less hours, Thank You so much, THANKS THANKS a lot
Scott says:
Fixed a real problem. Thanks heaps, I appreciate it!!
Arun says:
You brought me out of great trouble
thanks a lot for the solution
sasha dj says:
saved me a lot of time trying to figure out on my ownBIG HELPthanks again
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sasha dj says:
saved me a lot of time trying to figure out on my ownBIG HELPthanks again
Duncan says:
October 24, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Just wanted to say thanks for the tip on how to get folders to open instead of the search function opening when double-clicking You star!
Duncan
melissa says:
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!
Sitaram says:
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll is working perfectly.!!!
thanks a lot
Andy says:
Thanks for the solution, i thought it was only my computer with this problem but it seems like quite a few people have had the same problem!!!
adam says:
November 2, 2006 at 9:48 am
Jay Lee, your quick fix by command regsvr32 /i shell32.dll works like magic, ending my long time frustration. thanks, thanks!
Rob Riddle says:
Finally a quick and WORKING answer. Thank you for sharing you knowledge
samsun says:
THANKS! I was getting so frustrated. That command did h trick. Thanks again, kind Sir
Jack Chen says:
typing none as default value also works perfectly for me. Thanks.
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Seetharami Reddy says:
Thanks alot.command line is working fine
coliflor says:
Thank you! Thank you!:)
bork says:
December 3, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Thanks =] I have had this problem before, but a while ago I shut off the System Restore. Today, I was playin around with the icons for windows, I guess somethin happened.
Thanks again!
Brian says:
regedit trick worked great. You might add that they need to click the FILE in that folder though . . . Thanks a ton!
Kresimir Dominis says:
December 8, 2006 at 3:30 am
GJ solved the problem tnx man
Gringo says:
Thanks alot this fix the problem when i install Vista Transformation Pack
Ertan says:
Thanks,
That advice helped the problem a lot
John says:
Worked like a charm!
Lintz says:
January 1, 2007 at 1:24 am
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You are awesome.
The quick fix didnt work for me but a couple of minutes in the Registry Editor fixed an annoying problemand I aint the brightest guy in the world.
Thanks.
PWT says:
This problem was driving me crazyMicrosoft was of no help. Your quick fix worked like a champ.
Alex says:
Man thanks A LOT for your help minute after minute, hour after hour I was torturing myself trying to find an answer then the idea went over me- GOOGLE I found YOUR
solution THX once again
Martin says:
Just took n this new client and thought, WTF? What did the previous consultant do? I-net and Google are the best source of information. There is no such thing as a unique
problem. This is just another example. Keep it lit!
G C says:
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THIS SAVED ME A SYSTEM RESTORE POINT!! Funny it took me about 10 unique searches to find this one, goes to
show not to give up on the internet
btw, HP support is no help at all.
Steve says:
Quick fix worked. Thanks. Also i have discovered how it happened in first place. I wanted to see file extensions, but instead of unticking the option in the view tab I had used the
file types tab and then in advanced I had ticked the show extension box. hope this helps
Rennie says:
January 12, 2007 at 10:05 am
Thank you so much for this easy solution. I`ve spent over 2 months with the annoying companion popping up every time I tried to open a drive.If only I did google search straight
away but didn`t think that anyone else would experience such a problem but finally I thought may beVery happy now
d0g says:
Jay Lee I love you!!! big wet puppy licks
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HeX says:
Life saver the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked a treat!
James says:
January 22, 2007 at 11:02 am
You are a star!
Rick says:
I bit the bullet and had to do it the regedit way. It worked. Thank you very much for this information.
Mahavir shah says:
Thanks it worked for me and saved a lot of time
thanks again
JayBachatero says:
Thanks man. This been annoying me for some time now.
crashhot says:
January 27, 2007 at 12:11 pm
thanks this was great, the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked perfectly.
I just installed itunes, any of the rest of you did this before this problem happened?
Anyway, thanks again for the solution it was driving me mad.
Donovan says:
SWEET!!! You are definately the man!! Worked like a charm. You alone prove more helpful than microsoft support. Thanks a lot!!
Santosh says:
January 30, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Thanks a lot Jay Lee for this fantastic fix. I have been spending more time trying to solve this but in vain. Your fix did the trick for me.
Great Job!!!
pdrury says:
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Thank you, Jay Lee, for the fix. I, too, thought I had done something to screw things up. Your simple fix with the regedt32.exe is the bomb. Thanks again.
Nagendra Srinivas says:
Thanks. Actually the Registry worked for me. Earlier I had tried to register the dll which had failed. Thanks Much !
randal says:
man, jay lee ROCKS. regsrv fixed it on the spot,
thanks,
Luthien says:
February 6, 2007 at 7:27 am
Thanks man,
that just saved me the rest of the days work!
Saturn says:
You are genius !! Noone till now could solve my problem but you did man !.. Thanks a million.
krishna says:
Thank u,
It helped me also.
deeptoot says:
OMG i love you!!
Jim says:
You are a savior thank you!
Micky says:
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Dude just want to say thanks Im on the verge of switching to a mac after all of the trouble Ive had with Windows. This annoyance was about to push me over the edge
thanks so much for saving the day!
Lisa says:
Hey fixed it, downloaded a reg file. Thank god
BS says:
Your solution fixed my year-long problem!
Thank you so much! Worked like a charm in about 2 minutes!
Tony says:
Brilliant!! Months of messing about fixed in minutes using Regedt32.exe. Thanks
Maggie says:
Yet another happy customer THANKS!!!
demon says:
awesome!! that command worked perfectly for me as well. the whole having to go into right-click to open a file was becoming very very inconvenient and annoying. thank you so
much for the solution!!
mahesh says:
thnax buddy it did work thanx you
richard says:
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, the children did something to the comp (didnt know what),
but every folder i double clicked on opened the search window, after getting nowhere for a couple of hours, lol, i tried google, and lo and behold i found god, regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
worked a treat, so once again THANK YOU, Oh Lord of the computer.;]
Harold says:
Thank you very much. It was driving me crazy.
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Joss says:
Thanks! You saved me (from going crazy)
Bob says:
March 1, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Thanks so much you saved me loads of time. it was well annoying not been able to flick through my files! thanks a bunch mate.
Bob
Pablo says:
March 2, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Thks..i appreciate the help
Dave S. says:
March 3, 2007 at 2:35 am
Thanks a lot Jay, you saved me from going crazythis fault happened with XP after removing Vista on dual boot!! Well all OK now.
webtshirt.co.uk says:
March 3, 2007 at 9:05 am
BRILLIANT! This has been driving me nuts for three days now! I tried various registry hacks and nothing worked, until I found your simple run box dialogue!
Now my computer is all fixed! Thanks a million! You should have a donate button or something like that!
trampax66 says:
March 5, 2007 at 3:34 am
You are a genius!!!! 10x !!!
julie says:
March 6, 2007 at 1:23 pm
AWESOME! You have helped me to much! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
MD says:
March 11, 2007 at 9:51 pm
You rock solutions like this is what the internet is all about. Knowledge is power!
deb says:
March 15, 2007 at 3:24 pm
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You are my new hero. The registry fix did nothing to solve this incredibly annoying problem that Ive living with for two days. Thank you!
Matt says:
March 19, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Oh man, this has been bugging me for ages but ive been putting off editing my regestry for as long as I could. Then like some kind of internet superhero, you arrived and solved
all my problems.
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll did the job perfectly without any messing about! Thanks so much!
Nannybev says:
March 19, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I have had the same problem with Search companion, each time I go to open my disk folders
the companion pops up..very annoying, I dont know why it suddenly decided to do this !!! oh well thank you so much for your quick fix, I used regsvr32 /i shell32.dll prompt and
bingo !! my sanity is saved !! Thanks Microsoft Help . for nothing as usual !!!!
Im bookmarking this site for future probs.
ta again.
Steffi M says:
March 20, 2007 at 6:33 am
Thanks! regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked perfectly! BTW, it seems that this undoes the setting changes I made by mistake in tools->folder options->file types->advanced. I
accidentally set the find-action to default for the drives. So I believe you could create a new action there (open?) and set it to default? Well, whatever, just some of my
thoughts..:P
Derek says:
March 20, 2007 at 4:01 pm
thanks, it worked, got it done in 5 min.
Iqbal says:
March 25, 2007 at 2:35 am
Thanks a lot. The quick fix (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) Worked like a magic in seconds. Just ran it.
Tim says:
March 28, 2007 at 10:53 am
Thanks! quick fix did the trick.
Rambo says:
March 30, 2007 at 4:05 am
Another thank you..
You have just saved me from going bald by pulling all my hair out in frustration.
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M Y says:
March 30, 2007 at 10:33 am
Super fix. I did reset everything on my machine but nothing else worked. Txs.
Keith says:
April 3, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Thanks!The quick fix also worked for the problem I was havingevery time I would double click a drive in My Computer a command prompt would pop up instead of opening the
drive. Now it opens the drive.
Darrick says:
April 4, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Thanks a lot!! That helped a bunch. Damn windows, why doesnt everyone work the same when installed?? Maybe I can call Bill and hell explain it to me.
Evan says:
April 5, 2007 at 6:37 am
Awesome. thank you so much!
mauricio says:
April 6, 2007 at 1:54 am
Thankyou the command prompt (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly
you save my life
Sedat Kumcu says:
April 7, 2007 at 7:24 pm
thanks. thanks. thanks Jey Lee. this solve easy and good. best regards..
randy holdway says:
April 9, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Your fix worked for me to some extent. I dont get search anymore when I left click a folder, now I get explorer, which I can live with. But it would be nice if the folders and drives
would simply open like they should. But this is much better than search, THANK YOU.
Seb says:
April 9, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Yup regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fixed my problem, looks like this fix has hit the spot for a lot of people! I just dont understand why MS greyed out the edit and delete options under
folders file associations! Oh well, thanks a million!
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Rajiv Sarna says:
April 10, 2007 at 1:02 am
WOW !!
It worked like a magic.
Tara says:
April 10, 2007 at 3:27 am
OMG thanks so much for this I was going insane trying to fix this. You are a lifesaver!
I used the command prompt option
Paprika says:
April 23, 2007 at 6:03 am
If it wasnt for this one Id surely have to re-install my own brain! Great fix. Also THANX!
Shaun says:
April 23, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Thanks so much this saved me some serious headaches!!
Radhika says:
April 25, 2007 at 6:01 am
hey it really helped..thanks a loti spent a lot of time and energy tryin to solve thisshud hav used google the first thing.
brenda says:
April 27, 2007 at 2:46 pm
THANK you so much. Ive wasted more time trying to figure this out and asked multiple techies. It was so simple. thank you Jay.
Brian says:
April 29, 2007 at 5:44 am
Many thanks after hours of trying to get the files to open instead of search your command prompt quick fix worked a treat
Conor Sheehan says:
April 29, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Are you proud, you helped hundreds, and me Thanks Alot pal
meng says:
April 30, 2007 at 12:23 pm
The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll is like a magic. Thank you soooooo much. It is a lifesaver.
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Ahmad Jeffrey says:
May 2, 2007 at 3:28 am
Thanks a lot man! Youve saved me from a really annoying problem.
All the best.
Ahsan says:
May 5, 2007 at 2:22 am
Yes, that work.
The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll is like a magic. Thank you soooooo much.
Frost says:
May 6, 2007 at 1:25 am
omg!!!
it worked in 10 sec!!!
loveya!!
it was so annoying that i couldnt go to sleep n i was super tired!!
100000 THX to ya!!!!
Guru says:
May 6, 2007 at 3:29 pm
The command line worked like a charm after a couple attempted system restores.
God bless you. The internet is rarely this helpful this fast.
Abhay says:
May 10, 2007 at 2:13 am
Thnk yu so much for the tweak .Ive come across many irritating and frustrating probs in Win xp but this 1 jst made me realise how funny can the context menu functioned while
clicking on it . MAny ppl hav praised yu for such gracious deed hahaha .
Thnx again.
Ville says:
May 11, 2007 at 10:36 am
Omg Thanks !!
This problem annoyed the crap out of me, and couldnt find a solution until i google ur page.
THANKS!!!
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Mikeee says:
May 15, 2007 at 8:50 am
Thanks bro !!!!!!!!!!
Jim says:
May 15, 2007 at 11:41 am
Though I would be totally confident working with the registry, I tried your quick fix idea for simplicity. WOW! Thanks! It worked like a charm!
Igor Furlender says:
May 15, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Thank you so much. This has been driving me and it looks like everyone else crazy.
Nik says:
May 16, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Thanks man, i almost deleted my drive because of the problem. I have delete on reboot just under explore. but no more right clicking. Thanks again.
Eli says:
May 17, 2007 at 6:27 am
I had the search instead of open problem on my drives, fixed succesfully using the
command!
THANK YOU!!!
Chris says:
May 19, 2007 at 6:14 am
thanks for the regsvr32 fix.
worked straight away and fixed my own attempt to fix the probleme
Kumar says:
May 20, 2007 at 5:57 am
Thanks for the post Jay the command prompt and typing the following:regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
worked.
Great help to a problem that was driving me nuts
davoo says:
May 21, 2007 at 7:49 am
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YEAH THANK U!!!!!!
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Arik says:
May 26, 2007 at 10:19 am
This fix is still kickin tail in 07. Thanks sooo much, now my girlfriend doesnt have to use righ-click > open/explore to view the contents of a folder. WOOOOT!
Andrei says:
May 27, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Thanx a lot for the quick fix! My problem was the search window appearing everytime i tried to access a drive in My Computer. Works PERFECT! thanx a million
Watty says:
June 1, 2007 at 8:05 pm
yessS! WOOHOO, whoever looked into this first is smart. haha
crimsy says:
June 2, 2007 at 4:03 pm
hey!!! thaksss the quick fix worked a charm!!! thankyou!
Adi Yusoff says:
June 9, 2007 at 11:08 am
Thanks Jay Lee for the very simple but absolutely effective way to solve the problem.
Youre The Guy!
Eddie says:
June 14, 2007 at 4:12 pm
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll, that one works, thanks
Stuart says:
June 24, 2007 at 8:00 am
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
worked for me, i remember playing about trying to change icon for my ext Hard drive but HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell trick did it..
Thanks alot mate, that was soooo frustrating!
Sherry says:
June 24, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I have bben trying to clean my computer up (memory) and hadnt a clue what I did to cause this. I tried a few things that I thought I had done but alas none worked. It was great
that I did a search and you were first. This page was quick and easy to understand as well as the fix. THANK YOU!
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Travis says:
June 24, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Thanks a million regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fixed the problem immediatley
Robert says:
June 29, 2007 at 11:07 am
You are a legend. That was going to drive me nuts.
The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll prompt worked a treat.
Thanks so much
Joe says:
July 5, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Yes!!!
Tripper says:
July 17, 2007 at 1:42 am
Also worked for auotmatic display of Command window after single left click in attempt to display folders in Windows drives (C, D, etc.) folders. Good Work, and Thank You!
fefe says:
July 24, 2007 at 12:04 pm
thanks (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll works for me)
Meesha says:
July 25, 2007 at 5:37 am
thanks .
its reallly works
it helps lotzzzzzzz
willem says:
July 27, 2007 at 5:42 pm
thanks alot jay lee
it works
maya says:
August 2, 2007 at 11:27 am
this resolution helped me on a webtop call
thanks so much.
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it really works.
Sridhar says:
August 7, 2007 at 11:00 am
Yeah JAY.. Really you are a Genius.You know being i am a sys admin for 4 yrsit drove me mad to find on the internet..
BUT UR SOLUTION TOOK JUST A MIN.I must have wasted 10 hrs already
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOUKEEP IT UP.. and KEEP Helping..
BEST REGARDS
Sridhar
Nilton says:
August 9, 2007 at 7:39 pm
the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll works great thanx
bishunauth jagsarran says:
August 22, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Thanks a million for your help! It really works.
michelle says:
August 23, 2007 at 4:20 am
Thank you it took 10 seconds to fix, and it was so easy, like someone else mentioned you saved me another trauma of resetting my pc (once again)
RX says:
August 24, 2007 at 6:25 am
nailed it
Sailor says:
Thanks very much for that fix, a professional computer repairman could not fix it. I pasted and copied and BINGO cracked it. I am putting you down for a gold star.
Thanks
Dominic says:
WOW thanks SO much you saved me and my sister from spending 140 for each computer to fix this and the soulotuion IS SIMPLE wow i should of known
nice
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nawnil says:
thanks
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll is work
Sergio says:
Hey!!, thanks a lot.
My problem started trying to add the Print Directory feature to a folder in XP.
was the solution.
Joe Mata says:
I
have a problem with my PC at home. My File Folder
wont open when I right click it or doubled click. I
check in My Document\Tools\Foldr Options\File
Types\File Folder\Advanced. There is three different
commands in the action box; find, open, Openn. When I
open a File Folder it ask me Open With Choose the
program you want to use to open this file How do I
fix this problem of mine? If you could please help
me. Thank you for your time.
benny says:
Thanks!
Saved me after houres of struggling with it
aliaa says:
thank you so much
Brian says:
24 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
Wow, I to was plauged by a command prompt opening when double clicking on my drives. the registery settings worked. Thanks for your help!
Cristy says:
thanks so much for the info, fixed me up in less than a minute!!
kaustuv says:
thanks.i have to try iy..i am suffring from same problem after deleting torjon horse virus from my systemhope it will workthanks again
Elsa says:
thank you thank you thank you , you are a god! or at least a demi-god!
boeppens says:
somebody pay this man loads of money!
Thanks dude, worked a charm and ended hours of fruitless complicated nothingness.
Lawrence Shawcross says:
you know what 7 years experience and you click your fingers with the solution you are a GOD!!! anyone who disagrees is a fool!!! (Go on Tell The Computer Your Not!!!!)
GIRI says:
October 26, 2007 at 11:15 am
eXCEELENT //// THANKS ALOT
harry says:
thank you iwas getting ticked off iknew somethingt we`nt wrong when i was fixing the letters for my hard drives thanx
ralph says:
Thanks for a super EASY fix! Was more than a problem.
John says:
25 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
Not tried it yet but need to on a friends system. After reading all the great responses Im sure it will work fine.
Very helpful, thanks
Justin says:
October 29, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Thanks Jay. The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll in the command prompt worked great.
Gaurav says:
Thanks .It worked out perfect
eric says:
Jay, the command regsvr32 /i shell.dll worked like a charm. Its one of the reasons I hate Bill Gates and his lousy products but people like you help keep the millions going. Saved
me loads of time. Group hug for you dude.
Polly says:
OMG!!! This problem has plagued me for months! Several forays into the as usual USELESS Microsoft knowledge base NADA! And now with your fix VOILA gone in 2
seconds!. Jay, TU,TU,TU x a million!
Thanks too to Steve at January 12, 2007 08:45 AM, for illuminating the likely reason!
Tabrez says:
Thanks mate.. works perfectly
Nutzu says:
Man U ARE AWESOME !!! Thx dude, this command do all the trick >>> regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
I LOVE U
Marianne says:
Yep. Me too! Thanks for that!
nes says:
26 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
class fix..
Malachi says:
Thank You! Took 2 seconds to run the command and fix this super annoying problem! Most satisfying solution to any problem ever!
manic says:
Thank you very much
I can verify this works on Windows 98 as well. A friend had an old laptop afflicted with this evil bug that he brought to me.
One note though, on 98 if its not pathed correctly, you have to change directory to windows/system32 for the command line attempt above to work. For me that still didnt fix it
though, so I had to do the regedit.
Of note in my case, not only was find the value listed instead of none, but there were also several FIND sub keys to other actions (including repeated finds) under the main
shell key. After they were deleted, It just went through the list preforming the next action until I removed *all* of them. This might just be behavior peculiar to Win98 though.
If you have to do that though, make very, *VERY* sure you back up the registry keys in case something blows up. Still spooky though.
Elad says:
thank you.. first one worked
Rakesh says:
Thanks a lot it has worked.
David Parris says:
Wow, worked for me also. Ive had this problem for a few years now. Funny, advice he gave a couple of years ago is still helping people.
MJ says:
Still works like a charm. Thanks so much!!!!
tom says:
Thanks
27 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
Microsoft KB no help at all.
Your fix regsvr32 /i shell32
worked fine.
Fred says:
Many thanks: worked a treat! My Hero!!
SusanA says:
Thank heavens! The quick fix did the trick.
All i did was change some icons, and this annoying thing happened. Really appreciate the help.
sayan says:
Thanks for the code.
It was really very helpful
Gaith says:
oh my god!!! i was so desperate thinking of what the hell i should do to fix my problem, and then with ur simple command line help it all went away, thank you so much man, best
of luck to you
ilanggo says:
January 13, 2008 at 12:44 am
thanks alot.. ur command helps alot..
ur a genius
Benjamin says:
Thanks for that. The regedit thing worked like a charm
Vikram Goyal says:
Thanks a lot, I am able to solve my problem with the given command
Anthony P says:
28 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
SUPERB I was going nuts trying to figure it
plus it was so annoying.The command was perfect
THANK YOU
Anthony P from Sri Lanka
Rick says:
Thank you Jay Lee. Your fix with the regedt32.exe
worked like a charm. It took all of two minutes to repair. I hope it only takes that long for my wife to forgive me for screaming like a maniac for the last three hours.
Kaleem says:
Thanks Jay Lee for the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll solution.
Rich says:
Thank you!
The command prompt (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly!
The problem was driving me CrAzY!!!
ankur says:
Seriously dude you are my hero
karun says:
Thankyou for the command prompt solution (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly
Jim says:
Thanks! The command prompt solution did the trick!
Nobody says:
Your help just keeps on giving and giving.
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I love you!!!! says:
March 1, 2008 at 11:42 am
Thank you so much. In 7 seconds on google I found your fix, with another 4 seconds I used the one-line fix and it worked!
naveen says:
March 1, 2008 at 12:12 pm
thanks dude..the change in the registry helped and it worked in a flash
Mark says:
March 2, 2008 at 11:45 am
The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell edit worked flawlessly. Thank you for saving me countless hours of research. Thanks a million.
dan says:
March 6, 2008 at 12:09 am
Quick fix. Top search result on google, for good reason. used regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fixed in a snap.
eu says:
March 6, 2008 at 3:09 am
thanxthat helped..10x a lot
RedDragan says:
March 8, 2008 at 7:10 am
First result in Google
First time Fix
First Class Guy you are a hero!
Brian says:
March 14, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Worked for me, thanks
niks says:
March 18, 2008 at 10:51 pm
thanks a lots dude..The command prompt (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly!
niks says:
March 18, 2008 at 10:52 pm
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The command prompt (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) worked perfectly!
Eyakem says:
March 21, 2008 at 6:31 am
Thanks man, perfect fix! Been to microsoft for help but their idea was really micro and soft, pity #321379 even sound like combat code . YOU ROCK!
N Upadhyay says:
March 25, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Thats works like magic
fab says:
April 7, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thanks a million regsvr32 /i shell32.dll did the trick. Ive been living w/that damn flaw for weeks.
chris says:
April 19, 2008 at 3:16 am
cheers, mate
you are a life saver was so frustrated
halo_nothing says:
April 20, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thank you so very much. Its evident theres a lot of people pretty happy with the fix you posted.
Zoester says:
April 23, 2008 at 6:08 am
I have been networking and programming for 22 years now and I love the ability to ask a world a beginners, novice and experts a question. The regsvr32 command worked
perfectly. Thank you for your suggestion. It is great to ask a question and have a over a million people and more to ask.
Thank you
Claudia says:
April 24, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Goodness me thank you so much! I was trying to make my desktop pretty by changing icons and folders and suddenly the search folder happened! I tried the microsoft solution
but it did nothing. I was really nervous about doing the command prompt (I didnt even know what it was! >.Goodness me thank you so much! I was trying to make my desktop
pretty by changing icons and folders and suddenly the search folder happened! I tried the microsoft solution but it did nothing. I was really nervous about doing the command
prompt (I didnt even know what it was! >.< I had to google it ) In the end I typed regsvr32 /i shell32.dll pressed enter and voila! a beautiful pop up said it was all fixed. wohoo.
thank you so much!
Brian says:
April 29, 2008 at 12:14 am
31 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
Thanks Jay, like the others, you saved my sanity.
Marc says:
April 30, 2008 at 6:43 pm
beautiful. Worked as described. Thank you.
Paul says:
May 1, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Thanks dude, Im so used to something going wrong with a computer and seemingly no one else in the world having the same problem, but one quick google search led me here
and the command prompt fixed everything. Props.
Bill says:
May 3, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I TOTALLY agree with Paul Windows just started
doing this on its own and after Googling several
word phrases I got your quick and easy fix!
THANKS YOUR THE MAN!!!!
Bill
anil says:
May 19, 2008 at 8:05 am
Thanks for help.
leslie says:
May 21, 2008 at 3:50 am
Thank you so very much!
KNIGHT SERVER says:
May 24, 2008 at 11:12 am
After looking for a program that would stop opening the search, this artical only took me a minute. Thx alot to Jay Lee.
jay says:
May 29, 2008 at 11:35 am
Thanks for this solution. Worked great
Rainer Schnelle says:
May 31, 2008 at 4:54 pm
32 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
The registry hack workedamazing! Thanks a lot
Caecilia says:
July 22, 2008 at 10:01 am
Thanks! You rock! Used quick fix and it was all better in 10 seconds.
brian says:
July 23, 2008 at 5:50 pm
many thanks jay after 3 hours your reg+ sorted me in seconds many many thanks brian
Diesel says:
July 24, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Thank you soo much those were great directions!!!
I. Ceed says:
Just cant describe how helpful the registry hack has been to me. Just superb.
Thanks Jay
John Denver says:
August 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I WAS HACKED HARDOCRE, THANKS!
-Bill
Mike says:
August 14, 2008 at 3:03 pm
was able to fix a problem that had been nagging for 2 weeks with one little command line
Thank You
sunny says:
August 26, 2008 at 9:12 pm
thanks a lot man.regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked perfectly fine
Hawk says:
August 27, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Thanks man, this works perfectly for me.
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Big A says:
Hey, the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked in an instance. Thanks, the Search Companion was getting annoying. Thanks again.
million says:
thanks alot this thing really worked after 1 year tryna fix it lol thanks
Adam says:
Hello, i reccommend you dont to the registery changing
I reccommend the command prompt one..
Its more easyer and it fixes the problem..
A huge thanks to you
Chris Poynton says:
Thank you so much! Last time this happened I was stuck with the problem for ages!
Simon says:
Thanks, It had been driving me mad for weeks, fix works great
TheThronedC says:
Thank you sooo much! I googled this and the i shell32.dll way helped me!! I appreciate this so much. You are a great great help!
ndimos says:
Thanks! Simple and really helpful!!!
darkfairy says:
Thank you so much!
Manoj Padhye says:
34 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
Even after passing Microsoft MCP certification & working as IT desktop administrator for year, I could not solve the drive & folder opening problems. This solution was mind
blowing!! It just worked in fraction of seconds.. got rid of searching for registry help. Microsoft does nothing to solve such queries. Google search is the best option to get help
instantly. Thanks very much again for the solution
manon says:
thanks a lot .u hv solved my problem jay
Robert says:
AT last after all that looking I found this! THANK YOU!
Robert says:
AT last after all that looking I found this! THANK YOU!
Guy says:
Jay, thanks man. So annoying! Haha
. says:
Thankyou
The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked a treat, was stuck with this for hours before finding your solution.
Thankyou
Rana Imran says:
It helps a lot. I was driven mad by thinking that I GOT a VIRUS/TROJAN again .
Thanx DUDE
rolie says:
whoaa.. Thanks dude,
I really pissed off.. I just wanted to change the icons of my folders and ended by doubleclicking-search window shit.
So, really thanks,,
BTWthe regedit is not workin
35 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
just the regsvr32 using the cmd prompter
satheesh says:
thnx a lot man..had this problem for almost a year..thought it was a virus or something shud hav googled it long ago.U ROCK!!!
Sandeep says:
Hey,
I really wanna thanks to this site that he solved my problum.
Thanks again.
Keep up the good work.
omsairamana says:
Thanks Jay!!
Your regsvr32 /i shell32.dll worked fine.
After running various virus scans and trying to delete ini files and altering folder properties
I was getting frustrated.
Your solution solved it in seconds!
Thanks once again
All the best and God bless you.
goce Macedonia says:
this with command promt was the best solution in the windows history :):):):)
eric says:
Holy crap your a genius Jay!! Thank you so much!!
Paul Banner says:
I used the command prompt regsvr32 /i shell32.dll and it worked just like that! Note that it takes several seconds to execute and then Windows displays a confirmation.
Thank you sincerely!
Paul
36 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
sivakumar says:
My company Lot of computer having that problem. i have used regsvr32 /i shell32.dll register file then the problem is solved.
I realy thanks a lots to this site that he solved my problum.
Zayna says:
You absolute star. Copied and pasted and fixed in 2 seconds. A million thank yous! xx
Dhiru says:
January 16, 2009 at 12:17 am
this is very fantastic solution
Which is not solved by My IT department
And i showed this soluation to them they surprised and before problem solved they said that my computer have virus problem you scann it
i have scanned my pc lot of time but it was still problematic
MANY MANY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND GOD PLEASE GIVE HIM LOT OF STRENGH IN HIS PROFESSION
ONCE AGAIN MANY MANY THANKS
Gus says:
January 16, 2009 at 10:46 am
That little regsvr32 /i shell32.dll did the trick for me. Its been driving me carzy for the past few daze! I thought my problem started from the Rose.exe virus/malware but It was
still there after I removed the bug. Like others said, much thanks for the fix and leaving this posted for all these years. You restored whats left of my sanity here in Florida!!!
RAM ADITYA says:
Thanks man. The registry editing way helped me and you saved my day. Thanks a lot man.
Anonymous says:
the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fixed it for me Thank you for the information.
Dwight says:
Thank you thank you.. the command prompt corrected my problem!
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Ron in NC says:
I add my bushel of many Thank Yous to the rest of the grateful people on this site. The
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll fix is the right solution to this strange problem that just crops up for no reason
This is an old question but continuing problem that I also had with XP Pro.
That One Guy says:
Ill add my thanks too this helped me twice when my kids attempted to change the file folder icon to the briefcase icon because they thought it looked cooler.
Much appreciation!
shani says:
Just used this command on my windows xp pro the problem solved by my wirless network connections is getting disabled and not getting enabled even if m trying. What to do
now??????????
sugam says:
Thanks man. The registry editing way helped me and you saved my day. Thanks a lot man.
Hilary says:
I was getting so frustrated until I found this site! Thanks for the solution. It worked AWESOME!!!!
Allan says:
March 19, 2009 at 1:06 am
Thank you! regsvr32 fix did the trick. Thought I had a virus! WHEW!
Vickie says:
March 21, 2009 at 2:44 am
Thanks so much
Pasting (regsvr32 /i shell32.dll) in to the run field worked like a charm. Life is less frustrating now lol
Leigh says:
March 24, 2009 at 9:22 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
That was driving me nuts!!!!!!
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Jim K. says:
April 7, 2009 at 8:46 am
Thanks for the regsvr32 /i shell32.dll solution to left-click opening search. I was beginning to go mad over this one but your solution worked in ten seconds. Brilliant. Ill be visiting
this site regularly.
Jim says:
April 12, 2009 at 6:36 am
Thanks for the quick fix worked very well. Its been driving me crazy for a couple of days oh well thats windows for you.
ccc says:
April 12, 2009 at 6:05 pm
thx
James Andrews says:
April 14, 2009 at 10:05 am
Bingo!
Moumita says:
April 16, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thank you so much! Your solution has made life easy for so.. many of us. Thanks again!
Jon says:
April 22, 2009 at 4:39 am
Thanks a mill!!
spent ages trying 2 work it out!!!
Adware says:
May 1, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Thanks. The cmd fix worked out. Thats alot of comments!
Kaveh Torkanpouri says:
May 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Thanks, My problem has been solved.
Kim says:
May 13, 2009 at 8:15 am
39 of 42 8/8/2011 5:41 PM
thank you for this i didnt have to wait for IS dept to come out
Nick says:
May 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thankyou very much!
had to use the quick fix.
Priya says:
May 21, 2009 at 1:18 am
Yah! shell command really works fine . Thanks Jay Lee. This really helps me a lot.
hanna says:
June 29, 2009 at 12:38 am
Thank you so much for this quick fix. Worked like a charm.
Niss says:
July 3, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Thank you!
Gaurav says:
July 13, 2009 at 11:43 pm
thanks dude. it worked
IT tech says:
July 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm
YES! Worked for me too. The regsvr32 /i shell32.dll did the trick! Many thanks!
VullnetB says:
July 22, 2009 at 6:45 am
thanks man it really worked with regsvr32 /i shell32.dll thanks again
purushoth says:
Thanks a lot.
Now its working
Fan says:
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August 7, 2009 at 12:04 am
Thanks a lot!
Josh says:
August 14, 2009 at 8:16 am
Dang that really helped! I had been stuck with that thing for about four months and now i can finally get into my files. Thank You!
Joe Zammitta says:
Thanks, the command line worked. Ive been messing with that for weeks and found this site with a standard Google search. I love Google.
arva says:
You are a superstar my problem is solved.
Christine Bloomquist says:
Was cleaning up PC DUH. Dont know what I did waster at least 6 hours trying everything. Came to Microsoft, got to answer site HOORAY. Thanks. Read your column in
the Houston Chronicle regularly but was still using 98 when you published answer. THANK YOU!!
are says:
thank you thank you thank you!
swagramp says:
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!! ~.~
trgprasad says:
Cool man its working .keep posting tricks
Melissa says:
Came across this in a google search when looking up my problem and immediatly tried your trick after reading the comments on how it worked and indeed it worked perfectly on
the 1st try! Thanks! ^_^
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Arash says:
greate! thaks a lot, the command prompt solution was really straight forward!
samit says:
thanks a lot it fix my problem. really great help.
vishal says:
Thank you very much
norman says:
Hey Ive been trying to figure this problem out for a month now, and the solution was as easy as 1,2,3 after reading you solution thanks alot.
Sukanya says:
Thanks a lot dude!!!!!!!
The command prompt thingy worked.
Great help
U r a genius!
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