Help WIN+E shortcut to explorer doesn't work!

[premier69]

All of a sudden here in my win7 build 7048 x64 my keyboard shortcut for explorer.exe win+e an error screen pops up saying this file does not have a program associated with it...

 

[johngalt]

Dose it say *which* file does not have a program associated with it?

Are you using any sort of macro programs at all? Can you open Explorer windows manually? Is every folder navigable?

 

[SIW2]

Curious - I just tried it and this is what happens :

From the Taskbar icon:






From the .exe:




From the start orb, it opens to Libraries:

 

[premier69]

Hi, no no macros, just an ordinary user....

hey SIW2 did you get that error too now?

is it some registry issue?

 

[SIW2]

Hi Premier,

It may have been there all along - I don't use it normally.

 

[johngalt]

I use it daily - and my Win + E shortcut works fine in 7048. Let me fire up VBox and see about it in 7057.

Oops- epic fail - and I don't have time to see what the matter is.

 

[SIW2]

Seems to be spreading ? Something similar at this link:

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/5877-help-me-please.html

 

[Brink]

Pressing Windows Key + E works fine for me in the 7057 build.

 

[jfar]

Works ok for me also on 7057.

 

[premier69]

what makes it work fine? where is the key combination controlled from?

 

[jfar]

Try this link and see if it helps. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2503b91d-d780-4c80-8f08-2f48878dc5661033.mspx

 

[SIW2]

Premier,

Do you get this from Win+E ?

 

[premier69]

nope this:

 

[Brink]

Premier,

You might see if running as sfc /scannow command may be able to fix it. If not, then you can do a repair install.

 

[PhoneyVirus]

1. Open a Windows Explorer window.

2. In the Navigation Pane, right click on Libraries and click on Restore Default Libraries.

If that don't work your going to have to put in %Windir%\explorer.exe /n /f commands look for it on this form in Tutorials hope this helps!

 

[Chappy]

This depends I think on whether you've changed the default of explorer opening to the My Computer view instead of the default Libraries.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...er-taskbar-icon-change-open-target.html?ltr=W

I think if you've done this change it will work, but if it's still the Libraries folder it won't. I haven't tested this yet but I'm about too.

Edit - Nope, that doesn't seem to be the case. If I have the taskbar explorer icon set to open My Computer view it opens that with Win+E, and if I set it to Libraries view Win+E still opens My Computer view. Oh well, I thought it was a good one to try anyway.

 

[premier69]

I just tried hotkeybind which didn't work.

 

[premier69]

Premier,

You might see if running as sfc /scannow command may be able to fix it. If not, then you can do a repair install.

will any of those options screw with other things?

 

[Mark]

The first option wont but you may have some minor effects that are repairable if you go down the Repair install path, saying that the last time I did one was on build 7057 and there were no side effects, everything is running great.

 

[SIW2]

Not sure what it is ,Win+E still not working for me.

I have my explorer Taskbar icon opening directly to my documents :