Windows XP Question/Problem..............

[Cut-Throat]

I have a friend of mine that has a Windows XP machine and everytime you double click on a folder, instead of displaying the contents of the folder, it opens a Search Screen. I have looked all over 'Folder Options' and Views to figure out which setting needs to be changed, but cannot find it.

Anyone know what this is?

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

I have a friend of mine

Sure you do...its a FRIEND...

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/searchwindow.htm

 

[Cut-Throat]

Well it is on a friend's machine, but I wasn't smart enough to fix it. And I won't be able to try it until I go over there tomorrow.

But thanks for link, it's more complicated than I thought. - I was looking for a setting.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

They did something to their context sensitive menus (or some software/malware did)..."open" is usually the default function, but they've either removed open and explore or moved 'search' to the top of the list.

I didnt look into it for more than 3 seconds...do a google of "open folder search"...theres a buttload of pages. Maybe someone wrote a tool or theres a global setting.

 

[Cut-Throat]

Well, it worked! - I keyed in the short fix on my friends machine and it started working correctly immediately. He said it had been like this for 2 years. I could not tolerate for the evening that I was helping him organize his files.

A strange problem with a quirky fix.