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NT Explorer Mystery IE

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by corey

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Here's a good one....A user using WinNT 4.0 opens NT Explorer, clicks on the a: drive and IE opens instead inside the NT Explorer window? This happens sporadically. I looked in the winnt folder to see if the explorer.exe file was damaged and foundthat he was using another NT exporer file with a .scf extension??? So I changed his shortcut to point at the NT explorer.exe, why did he have two nt explorer files under his winnt folder....?? Any ideas on this mystery???

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by william j sosville

The .scf designates it as a 'Windows Explorer Command' Created and used by Windows Explorer for personalized settings.

This behavior can occur if you remove the Windows Desktop Update component and click No when you are prompted to remove the personalized settings for Windows Explorer.

by corey

Thank you....I set it to point to the normal .exe and all is fine now.

by bhrdwh

Easy way is to delete the profile from Windows as //Windows/Profile/User_Name & ask the guy to logon again, all settings will come on as Win Default.
Akash

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