Hello!

I fiddled with the file types and "managed" to corrupt my machine
somewhat. Going to System Control -> File Options(*) -> File types
(tab), I selected "Dateiordner"(***) (file folder) and set the default
to "find". That didn't do what I expected to do(**), I then added
another action called "explore" manually calling the system root's
explorer.exe and defaulted to that. However, whenever opening *any*
folder now (in the right hand view) gives me an error stating I have
no access rights! This is a blast!

Well now my problem: I can't delete the custom actions for that file
type!

Is there any way to repair? Regedit?

TIA
Karsten

(*) translated from German
(**) the original intention was to of change the "folders file type"
default action to "explore" instead of "open", so that "My Documents"
etc. would by default open the Explorer with the folders view to the
left...
(***) I followed a forum post to change the default action for files
to "explore" instead of "open", but I overlooked a second entry for
folders called "Ordner"

PS: Datei = file, Ordner = folder, it might be very similar in English
(maybe I should visit a German group... hmm too much text already ;-) )

This reg file will restore the folder association to Windows XP default.

Copy between "=====" and paste in notepad, save as folder.reg

Double-click or right-click and merge into the Registry.

========================
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder]
@="Folder"
"EditFlags"=hex:d2,03,00,00
"TileInfo"="prop:Size"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00 ,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00 ,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c ,00,2c,00,33,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000022
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000021

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00 ,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
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,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c ,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,\
00,25,00,49,00,2c,00,25,00,4c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec]
@="[ExploreFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\app lication]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\ife xec]
@="[]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\top ic]
@="AppProperties"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00 ,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
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,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74 ,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,\
00,25,00,4c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\applic ation]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{0 D2E74C4-3C34-11d2-A27E-00C04FC30871}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{2 4F14F01-7B1C-11d1-838f-0000F80461CF}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{2 4F14F02-7B1C-11d1-838f-0000F80461CF}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{6 6742402-F9B9-11D1-A202-0000F81FEDEE}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandle rs]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers\ {BD472F60-27FA-11cf-B8B4-444553540000}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHand lers]
========================

ju.c

"Karsten Wutzke" <kwutzke@web.de> wrote in message
news:c13068ec-af0c-4766-bfd5-d39368a26898@8g2000hsu.googlegroups.com...
> Hello!
>
> I fiddled with the file types and "managed" to corrupt my machine
> somewhat. Going to System Control -> File Options(*) -> File types
> (tab), I selected "Dateiordner"(***) (file folder) and set the default
> to "find". That didn't do what I expected to do(**), I then added
> another action called "explore" manually calling the system root's
> explorer.exe and defaulted to that. However, whenever opening *any*
> folder now (in the right hand view) gives me an error stating I have
> no access rights! This is a blast!
>
> Well now my problem: I can't delete the custom actions for that file
> type!
>
> Is there any way to repair? Regedit?
>
> TIA
> Karsten
>
> (*) translated from German
> (**) the original intention was to of change the "folders file type"
> default action to "explore" instead of "open", so that "My Documents"
> etc. would by default open the Explorer with the folders view to the
> left...
> (***) I followed a forum post to change the default action for files
> to "explore" instead of "open", but I overlooked a second entry for
> folders called "Ordner"
>
> PS: Datei = file, Ordner = folder, it might be very similar in English
> (maybe I should visit a German group... hmm too much text already
> ;-) )