How do I restore a right click command?

[thenavyway]

I have foolishly been playing with the folder options/file types recently. For some reason I deleted the Open command for the "Folder" and "File Folder" file extensions. Don't know what I was thinking at the time, but as you can imagine... I realize now that it was a horrible mistake. My question is, will I need to reinstall Win98, can I simply create a new command to Open (if so, how?), or is it a problem that can be fixed by importing a cab file? As of now I am unable to open the Control Panel from the Start menu, and I cannot open programs from the Start menu using right click. The Recycle Bin and My Computer icons do not respond to double click or to right click/Open.

[Mosaic1]

You should not play in there. If this happened within the past four days you can restore a previous registry To do that reboot. Press the CTRL button until you see the boot menu. Choose Command Prompt Only
At the C:\>
type

scanreg /restore and press enter

Choose a registry from a date before this happened. All other changes made after this date will be lost, install and uninstalls, settings changes.

[thenavyway]

Thank you for such a timely response :) It has been more than four days... closer to a week. Judging from responses to similar questions, am I correct in assuming that the registry does not keep backup copies past four days? How else can I restore these functions?

[Mosaic1]

You're welcome. Here's a registry file to restore function. Copy the Bold to Notepad. Save as fix.reg
Double Click on the file to enter into the registry.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec]
"NoActivateHandler"=""
@="[ExploreFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\app lication]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\top ic]
@="AppProperties"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec\ife xec]
@="[]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@="c:\\windows\\Explorer.exe /e,/idlist,%I,%L"



[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec]
"NoActivateHandler"=""
@="[ViewFolder(\"%l\", %I, %S)]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\applic ation]
@="Folders"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec\ifexec]
@="[]"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@="c:\\windows\\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L"

[thenavyway]

Thank you again for posting, my problem has been solved! I copied and opened the fix.reg file as you instructed but received an error message stating that the document was not a valid registry file, so I just entered the keys and values individually and everything seems to be running smoothly now. Thank you again for sharing your expertise.

[theloadstar]

I am having trouble running that command under ME. Is that the problem? I type at the C:\ (i booted with a start-up disk) and i get 'bad command of file name'.

[TonyKlein]

You probably have to run that command in C:\Windows\Command, on your system:

After the C:\> prompt, type cd windows\command, and run scanreg /restore from there.

Good luck, Tony

[reghakr]

In ME, To restore the registry
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type: scanregw /restore
Click OK.

A dialog box appears recommending that you close all open applications, and asks whether you want to continue. When you are ready, click Yes.
From the list in the Restore System Registry dialog box, click the registry backup that you want to restore.
Notes

Restoring the registry may not restore your entire computer system to a prior state. If you want to restore your entire computer system, you'll want to use System Restore.

reghakr