Theme - File Association - Icon Problems

For your problem with search opening instead of the folder, have you checked in the file types dialog to see if search is set as the default instead of open? Right click on a folder and see if search is in bold type. If that's not the problem, what happens when you right click on a folder and choose open?

Did you use a third party app of some type to do this? If so, what was it. I found a thread at another site where somebody had a similar problem using style xp. This person posted that he/she couldn't change the windows icons (like the ones you mentioned) back to the default because the program they were using couldn't find them. You can view the thread here but you may have to have a membership to view the entire thread. You can give it try though and see if it works for you.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20862965.html#1022510

In case you can't view it, this is the answer that worked for this person.

 

Hmm. Im a little perplexed by this as well.. Noting that Luna is driven by 'verbs'. It sounds like the wrong verb is marked as default. As i understand the remainder of the problem, when you are in explorer, if you double click on a folder, it will bring up the search, rather than opening the folder.. and the search dialog is the same as if you right click->search.

Check these keys out and compare them to a known working machine
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command

You also should try forcing the open verb to default using tools-folder options-file types Folder - Advanced

 

I had a look at mine in the tools>folder options and I don't see any search entry either. I didn't look at them before my first post. I just assumed it would be in there. I'm not sure where they hide it. I'll do some digging on this end too and see what I can come up with.

Also, there's two entries there for folders. "File folder" and the other one is just plain "folder ". I've always seen this before and never gave it much thought but now I'm curious. Anybody know what the difference is between the two? I noticed that "file folder" doesn't have an entry for either open or search. There's a bunch of others there that I see when I right click on a folder but those two are missing. I do see those entries in the right click context menu for folders though. There's also a "find" entry there that I never see when I right click on any folder. The file type "folder" just shows three entrys. Explore, open and PowerDesk.

Are you missing the open and search in the "file folder" too? If so, they must come from somewhere else. Somewhere in the registry no doubt. Maybe setting the open in the file type "folder" as the default would do the trick but I really can't say for sure. I'd sure set a restore point before I started messing around with these things though.

Anyway, it seems we're probably on the right track here. I'll see what I can find (no promises ) on the search thing and hold off on the icons until you see if the other app can patch it up.

 

Why didn't you just do an SR when you first had the problem? Or did you, and it failed to fix it? Well, anyway, Steve, welcome to Tweakers Anonymous. Martinr121 & I go every Tuesday night, but we still can't quit our freaking tweaking!

Quit fooling around. Announce to your family that you cannot be disturbed for a few hours, put on some of your favorite music, get a good cigar, do your backups and reinstall XP. You could probably get away with a repair, but if you have other things you've been meaning to change, now is a good time. The icons work, don't they? It's just frustrating to know you can't make them look like they used to... yep, that's a tweaker for ya! Couldn't be satisfied with an "ordinary" theme... won't be satisfied with dumb looking (but functional) shortcuts. I know...done it to myself a hundred times... Had to try something out to see if I liked it... Had to click when I should have been chicken enough to cluck. sigh.

At TA, we don't beat ourselves up with our IDtenT errors, we just commiserate and whip out our trusty XP disk, except for Martin, who hates WPA with a passion (MS has him red flagged because he's never satisfied with his hardware configurations! ) How much do you get paid per hour? How many hours have you already put into banging your head against a wall? Okay, you learned lots on the journey (never ran an SFC before??? and you are an MVP?? You must be unbelievably good, or very lucky!) now it's time to quit and move on. (btw, beverage of choice at TA meetings!)

Now, Joe Hobart, do me a favor and explain what you mean by

How can a noun create an action? Is Luna different than other themes? Please be patient with me. You look at problems much differently than I do, because you understand all the ones and zeroes.

Johanna

 

Johanna
They tried to get me to join TA too but I always said "no way ". Being a hopelessly addicted tweaker is what's taught me nearly everything I know about windows. Where would I be if I'd given in to TA's pressure through all these years? Besides, there's a certain satisfaction in defeating the puter without giving in to repairing windows or running sfc. Yeah, I've never run sfc either. I suppose my time will come though but if I do it you can bet it will be a last resort (I must not get paid enough ). Can't have my puter getting the idea the it's the boss! Gotta go now. Turn out the lights, shut off the music, and turn off the TV. They're at my door again!