"My computer" suddenly acting all weird

jonny72

When I got my PC, refurbished one, mysteriously the hard drive is set to H:\ (with c: being one of those media card readers)..

If anyone knows how to change the drive letters around it would be helpful..

The weird thing is, recently, double clicking on H: in "my computer" brings up..

"Choose the program you want to use to open this file"..

With the list of wordpad, etc, all the programs.. its pretty annoying.. anyone know what causes this or how to set it back to normal?

External harddrives (j: k: etc) all seem to work fine.

still_raining

Are you using XP? If so here's a guide:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

I'm sure it's pretty similar with Vista.

layke

Do not change drive letters you will screw up your programs.

after a quick google it seems this problem stems from a recently removed Virus that has damaged your registry settings.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/sectools/sUBs/Flash_Disinfector.exe
Give that a go, seems to have worked for someone who had the same problem as you.

jonny72

layke wrote: »

Do not change drive letters you will screw up your programs.

after a quick google it seems this problem stems from a recently removed Virus that has damaged your registry settings.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/sectools/sUBs/Flash_Disinfector.exe
Give that a go, seems to have worked for someone who had the same problem as you.

How on earth did you know that? it worked! thanks!

layke

Because I'm a good techie

ActorSeeksJob

You should post in the Computer Health forum with a HijackThis log, probably some more malware on your PC