> Left clicking on a file folder icon displays the C:\ prompt window.  Right
> clicking on same file folder displays drop-down window with top line in
> boldface type reading "open command window here" and "open" is in regular
> type but half-way down the drop-down window list.
>
> How do I change this?  That is, how do I change when left clicking on a
> file folder that it goes to THAT file's sub-directory.  And when I right
> click on a file folder the drop down window displays "Open" in boldface
> type on the top line instead of "open command window here" in boldface
> type on the top line.
>
> Windows XP home w/ service pack 1

"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel***@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:udbwmcXeHHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Try any of the following.
>
> (Tip from David Candy)
> Type or paste the following command into Start | Run and click OK...
>
>      regsvr32 /i shell32
>
> Or download and run Doug Knox's folder_open.vbs
>
> folder_open.vbs- Fixes the problem where Search or Command Prompt opens
when
> double clicking a folder
> © Doug Knox - rev 02/09/2002
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm
>
> Or paste the following command into Start | Run and click OK...
>
>     reg add hkcr\directory\shell /ve /d none /f
>
> --
> Hope this helps.  Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:eNytbNXeHHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
> JDoe <JDoe@dontspamme.net> hunted and pecked:
> > Left clicking on a file folder icon displays the C:\ prompt window.
Right
> > clicking on same file folder displays drop-down window with top line in
> > boldface type reading "open command window here" and "open" is in
regular
> > type but half-way down the drop-down window list.
> >
> > How do I change this?  That is, how do I change when left clicking on a
> > file folder that it goes to THAT file's sub-directory.  And when I right
> > click on a file folder the drop down window displays "Open" in boldface
> > type on the top line instead of "open command window here" in boldface
> > type on the top line.
> >
> > Windows XP home w/ service pack 1
>

> Well, I'll be darned.  Just like that!  It works.  I did as you said.
> Start
>> Run > (entered regsvr32 /i shell32) and hit OK.  Now when I double click
>> a
> file folder . . . voila  that file folder opens instead of going to the
> C:\ prompt.
>
> Thanks.   And thanks, too, for the immediate response to my query.
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel***@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:udbwmcXeHHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Try any of the following.
>>
>> (Tip from David Candy)
>> Type or paste the following command into Start | Run and click OK...
>>
>>      regsvr32 /i shell32
>>
>> Or download and run Doug Knox's folder_open.vbs
>>
>> folder_open.vbs- Fixes the problem where Search or Command Prompt opens
>> when double clicking a folder
>> © Doug Knox - rev 02/09/2002
>> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_folder_open.htm
>>
>> Or paste the following command into Start | Run and click OK...
>>
>>     reg add hkcr\directory\shell /ve /d none /f
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps.  Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:eNytbNXeHHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
>> JDoe <JDoe@dontspamme.net> hunted and pecked:
>>> Left clicking on a file folder icon displays the C:\ prompt window.
>>> Right clicking on same file folder displays drop-down window with top
>>> line in boldface type reading "open command window here" and "open" is
>>> in regular type but half-way down the drop-down window list.
>>>
>>> How do I change this?  That is, how do I change when left clicking on a
>>> file folder that it goes to THAT file's sub-directory.  And when I right
>>> click on a file folder the drop down window displays "Open" in boldface
>>> type on the top line instead of "open command window here" in boldface
>>> type on the top line.
>>>
>>> Windows XP home w/ service pack 1