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"Open With" dialog appears when double clicking on a mapped network drive in My Computer
Symptom
When you double-click a network drive in My Computer, the Open With dialog may appear rather than displaying the drive contents. However, when you right-click on the drive and choose Explore, the drive opens correctly as it should.
Resolution
Note: In conjunction with the fix suggested in this article, it's highly advisable to follow-up with a thorough Virus/Malware scan. The problem explained in the Symptoms section may be a result of a virus or Malware attack, or may be a remnant in the aftermath of virus or Malware removal.
- Download FixDrive.zip and save it to Desktop
- Unzip the file and extract the contents (FixDrive.exe and readme.txt) to a folder
- Double FixDrive.exe to run it
- Select the drive-letter from the list that's exhibiting the problem
- Click Fix
Screenshot
FixDrive (for Windows XP / Windows Vista)
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15 Responses to ""Open With" dialog appears when double clicking on a mapped network drive in My Computer" 
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said this on 08 Aug 2007 12:24:45 AM PDT
It doesn't work well...
At first it seems to be working, and double clicking opens the drive in explorer, but after reboot the problem appears again.
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said this on 09 Apr 2008 4:40:03 AM PDT
This is because this problem is caused by a virus which fakes an "Autorun" file and an associated executable to spread the virus.
An autorun file is a file present on the root of the driver which launch specific task each time you double click your drive, and in this case the task is to run the virus.
You need an antivirus to remove this virus from your computer as it usually not just an Autorun and its associated file, the virus leave files in other places in your system and launch it again every time you restart your system.
However.. In my trials when the drive in question is a local driver I usually need to reinstall windows on a clean disk and install an anti virus and do a scan as soon as my windows version is up and running.
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said this on 17 Aug 2007 6:15:36 AM PDT
Same.. it works .. but after reboot.. situation same.
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said this on 14 Sep 2007 4:29:02 PM PDT
oops !!! same dialog is apperaing after i restarted my pc ..... atlest there are no viruses in my pc for now, is there any other way to resolve this problem beside to for mat my h.d.d.
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said this on 17 Oct 2007 8:41:26 AM PDT
It is working but when i restart my computer the problem remains same
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said this on 05 Dec 2007 3:02:19 PM PDT
I agree with the earlier people who commented. This thing works as long as u dont restart the system. Once restarted then the issue crops back to the same. So i suggest that MVPs should do some thing better next time to resolve this issue for good. Moreover, I have different issue on hand, if they are interested in resolving this too, then I can share the information to them.
Srini
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said this on 24 Dec 2007 6:16:06 AM PDT
The Fix Drive works great on XP but for a different problem of mine. I do not get the "Open With" option but I get an "Open(O)" option. I seem to be getting this when I map a network drive to a shared folder on my Windows 2003 server. But this happens to omly one particular folder. I ran a anti-sypware/malware scan and also an anti-virus scan but I couldn't get any detections. Could you mail me the registry that get affected with this change to my email ID so that I could check on my server it if still resides there or not? I would highly appreciate it. Thanks, Savio.
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said this on 22 Jan 2008 8:56:10 PM PDT
This method works for me. I'm using Vista, and my case is when I double-click a mapped network drive, the system keeps pop up a message said 'Application not found'. But I can access that drive without any problem when using command line interface. After applying this fix, the problem is gone even after reboot.
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said this on 01 Feb 2008 11:54:00 PM PDT
This didn't work at all for me... Still can't open any of my drives.
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said this on 20 Feb 2008 11:00:44 AM PDT
you must do it manual, just go to http://www.techhunt.org/node/11 and you will solve your problem...
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said this on 23 Mar 2008 8:42:49 AM PDT
This links was very helpful to remove that error .
http://lognot.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-remove-autoruninf-from-usb-drive.html
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said this on 15 Apr 2008 10:58:07 PM PDT
fixdrive is a very good utility. I like it. While i was trouble to open my drive. Now its ok
Thanks
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