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Folders opening in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 as default.

Anonymous
2018-04-10T00:02:03+00:00

When I got Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, the folders are now constantly opening in Visual Studio. How can I make it so that it opens in the normal explorer.exe instead of Visual Studio? Any help is appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-10T00:58:10+00:00

    Hello,

    That's indeed a weird bug, especially since that would be atypical of directories but commonplace for programs and files, but I think I might be able to find a fix for you.

    Head over to an administrator session of Command Prompt (Start > Command Prompt, right-click, run as administrator).

    Enter this in: reg add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell /ve /d "none" /f

    Then: reg add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell /ve /d "none" /f

    This should reset the file associations with the Directory type. Let me know if this does anything. Good luck.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-10T20:50:19+00:00

    Yeah but it doesn't show the "Open With" with folders.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-10T20:46:14+00:00

    Thank You! :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-10T00:59:43+00:00

    Hello,

    Have you tried right clicking on the file you want to open and select "Open with", and then choose which program you would like to open the file with.

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