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Quickie Fix: IE8 Screwed Up Explorer Double Click

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I installed IE8 yesterday. Not that I use it but <shrug> Windows Update.

Anyway, today I found that my Windows Explorer is suddenly opening a new window every time I double-click a folder on the right pane. It was driving me nuts until a quick Google found the answer.

Open cmd.exe as admin, and run this:

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

That’s it! For me it fixed it instantly, no restart of Explorer required.

(Thanks to the article here for the info.)

May 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Posted in fix, vista

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