I have an odd one,

I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a
prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.

This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where
this would be.

Any ideas?

Rob,
Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.

karl snooks

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
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|I have an odd one,
|
| I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a
| prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
| being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
|
| This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where
| this would be.
|
| Any ideas?

Karl,

You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"
on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system file.


Karl Snooks wrote:
> Rob,
> Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
>
> karl snooks
>
> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> |I have an odd one,
> |
> | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get a
> | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
> | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
> |
> | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue where
> | this would be.
> |
> | Any ideas?
>
>

Rob,
Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
attrib /?
This will familiarize you with the attribute command.

With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.

Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.

Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.

karl snooks

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...
| Karl,
|
| You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"
| on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
| don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
file.
|
|
| Karl Snooks wrote:
| > Rob,
| > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
| >
| > karl snooks
| >
| > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
| > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| > |I have an odd one,
| > |
| > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get
a
| > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
| > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
| > |
| > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
where
| > | this would be.
| > |
| > | Any ideas?
| >
| >

Worked perfectly. Thanks so much, Karl.

Robert

Karl Snooks wrote:
> Rob,
> Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
> attrib /?
> This will familiarize you with the attribute command.
>
> With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.
>
> Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.
>
> Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.
>
> karl snooks
>
> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...
> | Karl,
> |
> | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"
> | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
> | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
> file.
> |
> |
> | Karl Snooks wrote:
> | > Rob,
> | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
> | >
> | > karl snooks
> | >
> | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> | > |I have an odd one,
> | > |
> | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get
> a
> | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
> | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
> | > |
> | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
> where
> | > | this would be.
> | > |
> | > | Any ideas?
> | >
> | >
>
>

Rob,
Great. Glad to have been of assistance.
karl

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:47BF9691.1030302@nospam.dslextreme.com...
| Worked perfectly. Thanks so much, Karl.
|
| Robert
|
| Karl Snooks wrote:
| > Rob,
| > Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
| > attrib /?
| > This will familiarize you with the attribute command.
| >
| > With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.
| >
| > Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.
| >
| > Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.
| >
| > karl snooks
| >
| > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
| > news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...
| > | Karl,
| > |
| > | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir
/a"
| > | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
| > | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
| > file.
| > |
| > |
| > | Karl Snooks wrote:
| > | > Rob,
| > | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
| > | >
| > | > karl snooks
| > | >
| > | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
| > | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| > | > |I have an odd one,
| > | > |
| > | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:,
get
| > a
| > | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of
just
| > | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
| > | > |
| > | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
| > where
| > | > | this would be.
| > | > |
| > | > | Any ideas?
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >

I'm not that familiar with the dos commands, but I'm having the same problem
when trying to open my two hard drives from "My Computer". Is there a way to
remove the autorun.inf from the c: root without using dos commands?

"Karl Snooks" wrote:

> Rob,
> Excellent. Since you can use the "dos" commands, then first
> attrib /?
> This will familiarize you with the attribute command.
>
> With the Attrib command you can set/clear various attributes.
>
> Use Attrib to clear the read-only, hidden, system attributes.
>
> Now you can use the delete command to get rid of that pest.
>
> karl snooks
>
> "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> news:47BF1986.3020900@nospam.dslextreme.com...
> | Karl,
> |
> | You don't happen to know how I can do this, do you? If I do a "dir /a"
> | on the C: drive I definitely can see the autorun.inf file listed, I
> | don't know the syntax for doing a del command to erase a hidden system
> file.
> |
> |
> | Karl Snooks wrote:
> | > Rob,
> | > Remove the autorun.inf file from the root directory of C: drive.
> | >
> | > karl snooks
> | >
> | > "Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> | > news:%23BLwDiOdIHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> | > |I have an odd one,
> | > |
> | > | I have a user who, when they go into My Computer and click on C:, get
> a
> | > | prompt asking which program they want to open it with instead of just
> | > | being take straight into the root contents of the C: drive.
> | > |
> | > | This smells like an obvious registry hack fix, I just have no clue
> where
> | > | this would be.
> | > |
> | > | Any ideas?
> | >
> | >
>
>
>