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Ronald - 17 Feb 2005 08:49 GMT

I am trying to open the folder options but i cannot find it from Control
Panel. Using the HELP and search "hidden files", the system shows the
shortcut for the Folder Options, but when i try to click the, an error
message appear "this operation has been cancelled due to restricions in
effect to this computer"

Can you please send your reply to ronaldmagtaan@yahoo.com

thanks and regards

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Alan Edwards - 17 Feb 2005 09:40 GMT

No idea how you can find a shortcut to "Folder Options" as I have
never heard of one and can find no such thing but I am always willing
to learn. Where was this shortcut and what was its exact name?

Have you tried Explorer-Tools-Folder Options?

If you have a restriction, then use the registry editor and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer.
Delete "NoFolderOptions"

...Alan

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In microsoft.public.windowsme.systemtools, Ronald

>I am trying to open the folder options but i cannot find it from Control
>Panel. Using the HELP and search "hidden files", the system shows the
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>thanks and regards

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Rick T - 17 Feb 2005 14:42 GMT

> No idea how you can find a shortcut to "Folder Options"

dunno 'bout you but (like the OP) I got one in Control Panel
(course I'm giving w2k a spin but I think ME's like that too)

rick

> as I have
> never heard of one and can find no such thing but I am always willing
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> ...Alan

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Alan Edwards - 17 Feb 2005 19:33 GMT

In microsoft.public.windowsme.systemtools, Rick T
<plinnane3REMOVE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

>> No idea how you can find a shortcut to "Folder Options"
>
>dunno 'bout you but (like the OP) I got one in Control Panel
>(course I'm giving w2k a spin but I think ME's like that too)

I am aware ME has an access to Folder Options in Control Panel as I
can see it.
It is not a shortcut per se but I see the OP is using HELP to find
information on Folder Options and comes across the same access
(presumably) as is in Control Panel. Rightclick your "shortcut" in the
Help and see what the properties say. You may get more information out
of using Folderop.chm directly but I don't see that this is helping
the OP solve his problem.

Let us see if a restriction is the OP's problem rather than wander off
the track.

...Alan

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Jack E Martinelli - 20 Feb 2005 00:41 GMT

I can confirm Rick T's observation, here under WinME.
The "Folders Option" applet, not a shortcut, appears in Control Panel, with
a context menu revealing "Open" and "Create Shortcut", but there is no *.cpl
file in ...Windows\System, or anywhere under C:\; corresponding to it.

The registry keys,

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF6AF},
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{6DFD7C5C-2451-11d3-A299-00C04F8EF
6AF}

have the value, "Folder Options".

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> > No idea how you can find a shortcut to "Folder Options"
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> > If you have a restriction, then use the registry editor and go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore
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> > Delete "NoFolderOptions"
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> > ...Alan

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