degustibus Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Only on one XP computer, when I navigate with explorer a doubleclik on the folder or diretory executes VLC videolan media player. I can open or explore the folre via right clik as usual, but the doubleclik starts VLC....and I get an error... Not a problem with other computers running XP and VLC.VLC works fine view DVDs, video files. Other file managers navigate folders without interference from VLC.Windows explorer only. An annoyance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 (edited) I have one computer that for some bizarre reason refuses to run VLC. My solution was to use the portable version from a USB stick on that computer.Here's a version http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portableI know it is not the version I have because this one was updated on Sept. 13th. Edited September 19, 2010 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
degustibus Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 I have one computer that for some bizarre reason refuses to run VLC. My solution was to use the portable version from a USB stick on that computer.Here's a version http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portableI know it is not the version I have because this one was updated on Sept. 13th.I uninstalled VLC and now I'm having weird Winexporer behavior--perhaps it wasn't VLC at all. I can open a left pane directory ok, but when I try to open a right pane subdir Winexlorer starts in search mode -- and if I rightclik on a directory I see that search is at the top of the context menu list of options (before I uninstalled VLC, it (VLC) was at the top of the context menu --So, to modify explorer rightclik context menu...yes via regedit, but I can't find an entry there for search...can't find a way to modify the sort order of context items -- I have this hunch that if "open" (instead of "search" were at the top of the context menu, I could open directories normally, but I can't find a way to resort or change the order of context menu items.....ooo[s too soon/ Thanks to google I located a context menu editor, seems to have solved the problem...nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Working with the right click menu. Here are two small, free apps instead of delving into the registry.http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.htmlhttp://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html (this one I have used) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tushman Posted September 22, 2010 Share Posted September 22, 2010 I uninstalled VLC and now I'm having weird Winexporer behavior--perhaps it wasn't VLC at all. I can open a left pane directory ok, but when I try to open a right pane subdir Winexlorer starts in search mode --Try these:Windows explorer starts in search mode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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