[help] Trouble launching URI from the run dialog

[smurf781]

Hi all,

I've been plagued by this problem a rather long time. I googled around and couldn't find a cure. Maybe you'll be able to assist. Here goes:

someone at work messed my file associations trying to show some cool "send to" trick.

To access someone else's machine at work, what I usually do is press Win+R to launch the Run dialog, then I type the URI: \\some-pc\dir-on-pc, press ENTER and presto - I'm there.

Since then, whenever I do that, instead of getting an explorer window pointing to the location I wanted to browse, all I get is the "open with" dialog (you know, the one you get when windows don't know which program is should launch to open your file).

If I open a windows explorer window and type \\some-pc\dir-on-pc in the address bar, all is well, but that's an extra step.

I can't spare the time and reinstall that machine, that's too much time consuming.

It is is driving me crazy.

[adamt]

Firstly, that isn't a URI, it's a UNC.

URI = /home/page.php

URL = http://www.example.com/home/page.php

UNC = \\example\home\page.php

Sounds like the association for a UNC has been broken. It should probably be set to explorer.exe

Not sure whereabouts in the registry this lives, but it'll be somewhere under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

My google is failing me on this one. Perhaps someone else here will know a bit more.

[adamt]

Now that I think about it, try this and see if it fixes things:

regsvr32 shell32.dll

If that doesn't work, a slightly better way than opening explorer each time, and then keying in the patch would be to type:

explorer \\UNC\path

in the run dialog.

[smurf781]

Firstly, that isn't a URI, it's a UNC.

UNC - you're absolutely right, my bad.

I'm @ home now, I'll try that and report back how it went.

Thank you for your responsiveness.