Set "Open each folder in the same window" and "Double-click to open an item"

[NorthernNoel]

Hi everyone

Since changing to Server 08 R2 and Win 7 this summer I've had a problem that's driving my users crazy! Folder options are set to "Open each folder in its own window" and "Single-click to open an item". Folder options are disabled for users so they can't change it themselves.

 

It appears that there is no option to change this in Group Policy. Would be great if they had the general tab on the folder options preferences. Anyone else having this problem? All I appear to find are fixes for XP that don't work.

[NorthernNoel]

Ok I've made some progress. Appears to be a problem originally from a GPO setting. "Turn on Classic Shell" under User Config/Admin Templates/Windows Components/Windows Explorer causes this problem and is now set to disabled. My second issue is that the users have retained the settings in their profiles. I've managed to fix double click by adding the following to the registry via GPO:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@="none"

 

 

To fix the new window issue I've found a reg hack below:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,20,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
 01,00,00,00,12,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,22,00,00,00
"IconUnderline"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShellState"=-
"IconUnderline"=dword:00000002

 

 

Trouble is that the current user bit won't run via Group Policy. I'm guessing that it needs administrator access to run it as the users don't have access to regedit. Is there a way I can do this in GPO?

 

Other option is that I delete their roaming profiles and local profiles off the machine but that's really a last resort. If I can avoid that it'd be great.

[craigg]

Group policy preferences :-)

[NorthernNoel]

Yep that's how I'm doing it. I've found that anything I try to add to Current_User in there doesn't work.

[stevenlong1985]

hey any luck with this, I pushed out some Registry files via GPO and having no luck windows 7 is driving me insane