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To: PetroLou who wrote (454)	10/19/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110648

PetroLou, I don't know what's wrong but have an alternative. I always keep Windows Explorer minimized on my task bar. It reappears automatically after shutdown. Gottfried

To: PetroLou who wrote (454)	10/20/1998 10:02:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110648

>>Open and Explore are grayed out and only Find is selectable. >>I must admit I have been in the Registry but I've restored all settings Well, it's your registry <ggg>, but if you had really restored all settings you wouldn't have destroyed your explore/open commands on the context menu. Try this: In the explorer choose Options from the View menu, click the File Types tab, and select the "Folder" entry (not the "File Folder" entry). Now click the Edit button. You should see Explore and Open entries in the Actions box. If they aren't there, you don't get the Explore and Open actions when you right click a folder (including the Start menu on the task bar, which is just another folder for this purpose). Select Explore in the Actions box, then click Edit. In the Application Used to Perform Action box, you should have something like the following: C:\Win\Explorer.exe /e,/idlist,%I,%L If you don't have something substantially similar to this, you have destroyed the command in the registry that does the Explore action when you right-click a folder. (The Start menu is just a folder in this context.) Add the above command in the box. If Explore is not in the Actions box, click New and enter Explore as the action and the above command in the New Action dialog. NOTE: Naturally, your windows directory, whatever it is, should appear at the beginning of the Explorer.exe path. Entering the correct Explorer command in this box should reactivate the Explore right-click action. Similarly the Open action is: C:\Win\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L Good luck. PS. I am running NT. The steps are substantially the same for 95, I believe, but can't guarantee. If you run into trouble, post details.