Drive always opening in separate window?

Question

Whenever I open a Drive (C or D partitions) it opens in a separate window. This only happens with drives (not with any of the folders) and in Folder Options> View, it is set to "Show in same Window".

It is NOT a virus. What i did was go to Folder Options> Advanced and changed the icon for my drive. The second after that this problem started. I changed the icon back but no luck. Last time I this happened I had a program that rebuilt the icon cache and that sorted it out but I don't have the program anymore.

If anyone has an solutions (or that program) please let me know.

Thanks to anyone who answers.

Answer 1

Go to start menu, then run. Type in ' regsvr32 /i shell32.dll ' .

But this will change back your icon to default.

to change your icon safely, download icon tweaker at download.com

here's the link

http://www.download.com/IconTweaker/3000...

Answer 2

Try first a simple computer > Restart

If this fails to solve your problem, then try this:

Start>Accessories>System Tools> and then Restore back to the date previous to the problem, then Restart

This way you are troubleshooting with a clean slate

Note, this does not remove documents, but basically resets your Registry Keys back to a previous date