[help] F3/search opens in new explorer window

[l0thar]

Hello,

With the help of the forums I've successfully created an unattended CD that suits my purposes - thanks MSFN!

However, I have one quirk... If I'm using an explorer (file browser) window and want to do a search, when I hit F3 or click the 'Search' button in the toolbar, a new explorer window spawns with the search pane active.

Although the search pane is active in the new explorer window, it is not focused on the window open in the original explorer window.

The desired (and correct) behaviour is that when hitting F3 or pressing the search button, the search pane should take over the folder pane in the left hand side of the active explorer window, allowing one to do a search on the active folder.

I hope someone has experienced this problem and knows of a solution. I'm pretty confident it's a result of a registry setting I've recently added to my tweaks.reg, but I have no idea what it is!

Thanks in advance!

Edited November 20, 2006 by l0thar

[l0thar]

I've found the cause of the problem - it's not a registry tweak after all.

If one uses an explorer shortcut with a target like:

%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /root,C:\

This gives rise to the search (mis)behaviour described in my first post. I had created a custom explorer shortcut with the following target:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Modifying it to the following got rid of the problem (don't know why, but these switches are ok):

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

In conclusion: Avoid the '/root' switch!

For more info. on explorer switches:

How To Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP