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Windows 7 file explorer acting up

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bill5

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Have been experiencing some minor but annoying issues...anyone else, and if so, what if anything helped? eg:

- when I double-click a sub-folder, it opens in a new window, even tho I don't have that option chosen

- if I do a search and right-click on a result and select "open in file location".....it doesn't (nothing happens)

Searching the 'net hasn't turned anything up as yet....
 
If you open Window Explorer - tools - folder options - are these your settings:
Browse ... Open each folder in the same...
Click items .... Double click to open ...
(Note ALT T will bring up tools menu in Windows Explorer)
Try going into view tab and restore defaults

If you hold shift and right click search results does this bring up the desired menu?
If none of this help, try running sfc.exe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
 
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Could you have a sticky Ctrl key? Try tapping both of them a couple of times, and see if it clears the symptoms up.
 
CA191000 brought this to mind .. have you tried a different KeyBoard?
Also try Control Panel - User Accounts- Manage another ... - then create a new account, login with it and test (maybe your user profile is corrupt)
 
It's a laptop, don't have another keyboard. 🙂 And really I'm about 99% sure that's not it - if it occasionally stuck, this wouldn't happen every time, and if it was permanently stuck, I'd notice it at other times (esp as I type a lot and use various apps where it would stick out). Tried another profile, same issue. Thx for the ideas though! This really is strange (then again we are talking Windows lol).

PS: the sfc.exe thing said it fixed some corrupted files - not sure what they were as I don't notice anything different, but at least I think I got something out of this. 🙂 I guess if nothing else maybe one of MS' zillion updates/patches will fix it, but if anyone has any other ideas, I'm all ears. Thx again to all
 
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