browse folders problem-Help!

OK, this is kind of an esoteric question (at least to me...):

I was reading "Windows XP Timesaving Techniques for Dummies" and stumbled across this tweak that would allow me to create a 'list files' option when I right-clicked a folder (like I ever need to see a list of all the files in a folder...). Then all files in the folder get listed.

I don't know if any helpful souls reading this have done this before, but if not, it entails editing a registry entry to "fix a known Windows bug" regarding the menu one sees when right-clicking on a folder. No problem.

Then I went into folder options>file types>file folder>advanced and created a new action 'list files' that executed a new notepad file I put into program files, 'List Files.bat':

Code:

dir %1 /o:gn /n /-p >  "%temp%\List Files.tmp "
start notepad  "%temp%\List Files.temp

No problem (-well, one little problem. I had to create a new action called 'Open' to run explorer.exe when I double left-clicked a folder, because when muddling in the 'edit file types', I left 'find' as the default action, so I was getting a 'search folder' action whenever I double-clicked, instead of just opening the folder...).

MAIN PROBLEM: each folder I double click gets opened in it's own window, instead of opening in the same window- ***yes, the 'Browse Folders> Open each folder in the same window option is checked in 'Folder Options' in the Control panel. But I still wind up with like 10,000 (well... several) annoying open windows when I'm cruising around through my different drive partition folders trying to find files. And I have yet to use the darn 'list files' option on any of my folders... that was a real bright idea...

Help?

 

System restore?
Don't ya just hate it when the easy stuff gets complicated?

 

lol- I gave up and SR'd my system settings- that did the trick! Thanks, Daiz!

 

Perfect.
Congratulations on getting it sorted. And thanks for posting back to let us know.