Ok, this looks like what was entered from fiddling with
the explorer options. If you're feeling brave, you
can try the following (wasn't working anyhow, was it?<g>).
Copy everything following ------------------ below into
a text file. Do NOT include ------------------ in the
copy. Give the file a .REG extension, say FOLDER.REG.
In the registry editor, navigate to hkey_classes_root\Folder\Shell
as you did before, then delete all the shell subkeys
(explore and open). You should now have the shell key
with nothing under it.
Then on the Registry menu choose Import Registry File
and select the FOLDER.REG file you made. This should
rebuild the key.
Check the shell subkey; you should have "explore" and
"open" back.
Note: I borrowed a Win 95 machine to make this file
and exported the hkey_classes_root\Folder\Shell
key, then edited it to specify C:\WIN as the windows
directory. If your windows directory is not C:\WIN,
you need to edit the text to make it right. It
appears in two places as C:\\WIN.
DISCLAIMER. I offer this for whatever it's
worth. If it doesn't work, I will offer sympathy
but I can't take responsibility (the management is
irresponsible <GG>). There are a couple
of things about your problem that puzzle me. That said,
this is unlikely to make anything worse, since it wasn't
working anyhow.
To check the results, select the shell subkey and choose
Export Registry File from the Registry menu. That will
produce a similar file from your registry, which you can
compare to the file you imported. Of course, you can
also eyeball the keys. And naturally the real proof is
whether your Open and Explore options work again.
------------------
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\WIN\\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec]
@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@="C:\\WIN\\Explorer.exe /e,/idlist,%I,%L"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec]
@="[ExploreFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]" |
