Whenever I try to open a folder by double-clicking, I get a "This program does not have an action associated..." message. I can right click-> open fine. What could've done this?

If I don't get a real answer I guess I'll do some restore, but... I'd like an answer.

Googled this for you: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/147235-double-click-folders-doesnt-work.html

At first I was going to mention that I'd already googled it but apparently googled the wrong thing.... but then I tried what they said and it didn't work. However, now I have who knows what in my registry, so imma just restore.

Edit: Yeah, that did it. Still, if anyone knows what could've caused this in the first place, I'd be grateful.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 10 2011, 4:38 am by Centreri.

I'm unsure how it could happen without you specifically knowing what caused it. You can easily set this for files when you tell it to "always use this program for this filetype" but no sure how you'd end up with that for folders. Any chance of someone fiddling with your computer?

Many years ago when I was young(er) and stupid, I borked an XP machine by registering .exe files to open with notepad or somesuch. I ended up having to re-format that because I couldn't find out how to fix it. You'd think that Microsoft would put in some sort of protection from re-assigning default application for critical extensions, but evidently not.