Windows Vista misbehaves: opens new windows for each folder...
by ameetpatil
This is a repost of: Hans Melis from here only slightly edited.
Recently, Vista started opening folders in a new window even though “Open each folder in the same window” was selected in the folder options. Obviously something had changed but I didn’t know what. There were more indications that something was wrong, including:
Eventually, I found a comment on the IEBlog with a list of 19(!) steps to fix it. Fortunately, and as noted in the comment too, step #11 seems to be the critical one. I was able to solve all issues mentioned above by doing this:
- Explorer opens folders in a new window, ignoring the folder options setting.
- The Windows flag on C: is gone.
- DVD-drives are labelled as CD-drive.
- Trying to access a CD/DVD results in a Format blank disc dialog box.
- Open a command prompt as administrator (right click -> Run as Administrator)
- Type: regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
- Click OK in the popup window.
- Reboot
System.out.println("RapiTime Stack Analyser");
