Vista - Windows Explorer Always Opens In a New Window

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:24:32 -0500, Respawns <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:
What would REALLY help (if you plan on sticking around) is for you to
learn how to quote what you are replying to.

Mark,

Other than a reinstall, a Repair install is the only thing left that I know that should fix it since the other patch methods did not work for you. This tutorial will give you details about it and how to do it if you want to give it a try.

Repair Install For Vista

Shawn

Nope.

Well I would but it was installed by HP so I can't get a disk to repair it.

Mark,

I do not know if it will let you do anything other than a clean install, but these instructions from HP will show you how to make a Recovery Installation DVD of your own from your recovery partition. It can come in handy if your hard drive should ever fail or get corrupted.

HP and Compaq Desktop PCs*-* Creating Recovery Disc Set in Windows Vista*

and

HP and Compaq Desktop PCs*-* Obtaining a Recovery CD or DVD set*

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Well I didn't make a backup so the disk wouldn't help much. Other than that it has software that preforms a clean install that is basically the equivalent of a reformat. I called them a few weeks ago and it was all they could recommend I do though.

Hi guys i get the solution
i searched over all internet and google but no good soution and i restored system but it still the same so i did one good this and it worked good

1- go to default programs start menu
2- choose programs and features at left down
3- choose " view installed updates" at top left.
4- delete some(not just one) of updates u installed specially for internet exploer 8 and the other which begin with " updates for micrsoft kb.....

after that restart and check it inshallah it will work good if not
setup tuneup utility program and choose registry cleaner from it and it will work


i did that both together but i think deleting updates is the prop specially ie 8
i hope it help u all

Mos

Hi. first and probably only post, but thought I'll verify previous post by moonlightever14.

Since a past Vista update that included IE8, my 32bit vista machine has been working strange. Double click on folder to new window being exactly one of them. Had done a lot of googling and regedit experimentation to try and fix it, but no luck.

Then I read moonlightever14 post today about IE8 updates. It triggered me to go and unstall IE8 as I already had a feeling it could be related to that. First time I actually removed updates installed by windows update, but did the job for me! I removed every kb-numbered patch that was IE8 related (using the windows update history), finally uninstalled the IE8 install patch itself. So my Vista 32bit is reverted back to IE7 and all problems including the double click issue in explorer are solved!

Didn't have problems on my 64bit vista machine, which is now still on IE8. Not that Vista64 users aren't affected, as I don't know what exactly caused it

I only wonder when it is save for me to let windows update do all its recommended updates again....

Hi im happy it work good for you

Altough a little of topic to the thread, but nice to note: Just reverting computer back to IE7 also fixed another problem for me that I had with Windows Media Player 11 being unable to share media. This made me unable to watch media on my xbox 360, which was kinda annoying. I found it was caused by Vista being unable to start the "Windows Media Player Network Sharing-Service"

However, after removing the IE8 related updates, I was able to fix that too