Double clicking a folder in Windows Explorer opens up a new window.

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Magnus Flysjö

I got this problem after I installed Vista SP1.
Inside Windows Explorer, when I double click a folder in the right pane,
that folder is opened up as a new second window. No matter what I change in
the settings window I cant get rid of this.
If I instead right-click the folder and select "Browse", the folder contents
is shown in the same window, but (as I said) double click the folder icon, a
new window opens up.

Seems to me that "double-clicking" a folder in the right pane triggers the
"Open" action instead of "Browse" action.
Anyone knows how to fix this? I want to browse my files in ONE window only.

/Magnus
 
Hi,

Open Folder Options from the tools and check that the option to open each
folder in its own window is not checked on the general tab. If it isn't, try
checking it, click apply/ok then reboot and uncheck it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Open Folder Options from the tools and check that the option to open each
folder in its own window is not checked on the general tab. If it isn't,
try checking it, click apply/ok then reboot and uncheck it.
Click to expand...

Doesnt help..
This behaviour started when I installed Vista SP1, no matter what I
change/check in the folder settings this prevails.
I have the following shell plugins installed:

WinZip (context menu popup)
UltraEdit (context menu popup)
Tortoise Subversion (context menu popup and some other stuff I guess)

I dont know if any of these "plugins" intercept the standard shell
behaviour, but everything was normal before SP1 installation. Can someone
tell me which registry values that might affect this double-click action?

/Magnus
 
Magnus said:
Doesnt help..
This behaviour started when I installed Vista SP1, no matter what I
change/check in the folder settings this prevails.
I have the following shell plugins installed:

WinZip (context menu popup)
UltraEdit (context menu popup)
Tortoise Subversion (context menu popup and some other stuff I guess)

I dont know if any of these "plugins" intercept the standard shell
behaviour, but everything was normal before SP1 installation. Can someone
tell me which registry values that might affect this double-click action?
Click to expand...

I'm missing the first part of this thread, so I apologize ahead of time if
you've already done what I'm going to suggest. Use ShellExView and disable
those three context menu connections and see if that helps. SP1 may
interact unpleasantly with any of them and my experience with third-party
context menu extensions in both XP and Vista is that they are often the
cause of bad behavior. I can tell you that Tortoise Subversion causes
issues on my son's XP Pro SP2 install. I don't mind that he runs the
program (it's my computer after all so I get to say!), but I disable the
context menu entries. That makes a big difference in how well the overall
OS runs.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Malke
 
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