Vista - Open Each folder in its own window Bug

That fixed it for me!!

Wow. It's great to have this rather irritating problem taken care of. Thanks so much for sharing it!

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Hi guys,

I just experienced this horrible misbehavior. Whatever I did, it was fruitless (trying to restore default settings, restart machine, repeat the sequence, in few iterations in different orders, etc.)

Then, I came up to the following links (you should note this only as the reference, I'll write exactly what helped me):

1. One site describes complete loss of folder view functionality; I saw this just once in my experience, some eight years ago, on Windows 2000.
JSI Tip 8321. Is your Windows Explorer folder pane blank?

2. The other one describes steps to fix Windows Explorer to be able (again) to open html/htm files.
Opening html/htm files from Windows Explorer

Second case inspired me to try to register mentioned dll's from the following batch file:

After executing this (under elevated-privileges command prompt), all of a sudden my problem was gone for good!

However, you actually don't have to do all these registrations - just one is enough in order to enforce Windows Explorer obey "Open each folder in the same window":

You can confirm that this is the right solution, if you intentionally unregister the mentioned file and start new instance of explorer.exe - the old buggy behavior is now returned - but it is an easy task to revert it.

*BUT* (!!#@*!$!)

a) New method to fetch updates from Microsoft for your Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server (I suppose Windows Seven too, I didn't see it), called "Windows Update" sometimes get broken, somehow (you are unable to even start it) - I'm writing this because of the (lucky?) guys who didn't see Windows Vista and/or Windows 2008 server.

b) if you are developer using Microsoft Visual Studio (any recent edition, including Express), or Microsoft SQL Server Books Online, more precisely - you are utilising dexplore.exe to read all help files related to standard libraries, MSDN, etc. you have a chance (rare, to be honest) to experience impossibility of browsing the mentioned help files, under unknown circumstances (I didn't have chance to investigate further). The error message describes that the ms-help:// protocol handler is unable to open the documentation (or something like that).

The solution for both of these problems is to unregister the mentioned .dll and results are visible immediately - Windows Update will start to work and dexplore.exe will be able to open the documentation.

I can draw no conclusion on this

other that sometimes registering the actxprxy.dll (ActiveX Interface Marshalling Library) and sometimes (temporarily) unregistering it resolves some really, really annoying problems on modern operating systems (some people would say "sloppy tested and developed Frankenstein-looking and feeling OS sold at arrogantly high prices to the money-loundry companies and insane individuals" - but not me).

Think about this when you next time see the advertisements such as "More reliable than ever", "Completely rewritten code base", "100% Vertically Compatible", "Solid as a rock" and similar Goebbels-propaganda from any company.

I hope that anything from this helped. I've lost some life time for this, you know.

Cheers
VLaaD

Thanks for this, it worked for me. But i had to put the exact contents of

"DelegateExecute"

from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command\

into the new explore\command KEY, which was {11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}

the above quote didnt work giving an error when i tried to open a directory in windows explorer.

can anyone post step by step instructions so a noob like me can fix this problem?
thanks

Enlarge on the situation ? ( Tell us more )

"geforcefour" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:fac137cbe7e644d4f56e7eff3524ff6a@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

Hi I'm having this same stupid problem. I did the basic check of checking the folder options but I had it set to "open in same window"
I then checked my registry (even if I am exceedingly hesitant to even mess with it) for that specified value and it was "Value not set"
I rebooted my computer many times to no avail.

Being the terrible OS noob that I am, please help me in my terrible plight! It's driving me nuts!

*Edit: I forgot to mention that all of this occurred promptly after I installed the recent MS Office 2007 patch/update (great job MS...)

"litlof42" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:e254718dba9159a8d4a6bbad996a3447@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Hi--

Forgive me but what exactly is the problem you have now specifically that
you didn't have before? You say

"Hi I'm having this same stupid problem." Okay. And what is the problem?
Is it that the folders won't open in a new window and now they're opening in
the same window? When you type "control folders" (loose the quotes) in the
run box, and check either "show all folders" or automatically expand to
current folder" does a check in each or either help?

What can't you do that you now want to do?

Does this help you? It tells how to get the folder open in a new Window in
Vista?

Open a Folder in the Same or Separate New Window

OR

BTW have you tried a restore point prior to when you had the problem that
you think is secondary to installing an Office SP of some type for some
version of Office?

Are these any help at all since I'm left guessing about what your problem
actually is with folders?

"Open Containing Folder" in Search for Files and Folders does not workWhen
you perform a file search, and then click the Open Containing Folder in the
context menu of the Search Results window, instead of opening the parent ...
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...-not-work.html

How to Make Folders Appear as Cascading Menu in the Quick Launch ...Some
people would like to view the contents of the folder (cascaded as a list)
rather than opening the folder when clicked. Here is how to make folders in
....
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/qu...ascading-menu/

Best,

CH

Hi Chad Harris,

I apologize, I was not specific enough - the problem is that the folders ALWAYS open in a new window.
Like I said, I tried the fixes (going into the folder options and making sure the option to open it in the same window is checked, which it is/was) and checking my registry.
Despite this, it still opens in a new window.

I have not tried the restore point method, but as I go to look at the nearest restore point, it happens to be the day that this Office service pack was installed. It was apparently also installed with a bunch of other windows patches/updates, which I stand to lose if I restore...

What should I do?

Bonjour,
J'ai exactement le même problème : le "double clic" avec la souris ouvre systématiquement les répertoires de l'explorateur windows dans une nouvelle fenêtre ce qui est super gonflant ! Il faut que je fasse "clic droit > Explorer" pour rester dans la même fenêtre ...

J'ai fait ce qui était préconisé ; voilà un dump des valeurs du registre pour les clés concernées (voir après).

Le pb a semblé être réglé une fois, mais après avoir éteint/rallumé l'ordi le pb est réapparu et je n'arrive plus à revenir à la situation normale ou tous les dossiers s'ouvrent dans un même répertoire.

Merci pour ceux qui auraient une idée ? est-ce qu'on peut définir par hasard qqpart la fonction par défaut associée au double-clic ?

Gilles

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00