If you have a computer with Windows Explorer, you may have noticed that it opens search results twice when you double-click on a file. This is because Windows Explorer tries to open the file in the first window that is open, and if that window is closed, Windows Explorer tries to open the file in the second window. This can be a problem if you want to search for something specific in one of your files and then open another file that has the same name but different contents, for example if you want to search for a document named “My Document” and then open “Document.txt”, both windows will open. To fix this problem, you can change how Windows Explorer opens files. To do this, go to your Start menu and select Control Panel. Then click on System and Security. Under System, click on Advanced System Settings. In Advanced System Settings, click on Change User Settings. Under User Settings, select General from the list of options. Then under General Options, select File Open Options. In File Open Options, set the following values: Include Files: No Open With: Notepad++ or WordPad Save As: My Documents or My Pictures
There’s a quick and easy fix for this problem. Open up regedit.exe by using Start\Run and then browse down to this registry key:
Double-click on the default value and set it to “none” without the quotes, as seen here:
This will restore the normal behavior.
Update
If you are also experiencing this problem when you try to click on a drive, you can run this command from the run box or command prompt:
This should restore the normal behavior.
If you are getting a message that says “Windows cannot find ‘PET32.exe’”, then at some point you had a virus, or still have a virus. First, make sure that you run a virus scanner to get rid of the virus. Then run the regsvr32 command above, which should fix the problem.
