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To: PetroLou who wrote (478)	10/21/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110648

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] @="[]"