Fixing disk drives not opening with double click

September 18, 2008 by PsMan
Filed under: Malware protection 

Sometimes, after a virus infection, disk drives, flash disks and other media will not open when double clicked, but only when right clicked then open is selected.

This is because of a hidden autorun file left by the virus infection and the antivirus failing to delete it.

To fix this do the following.



Select run from the start menu and type cmd
if the drive with the problem is C:\ type C: and so on

write attrib autorun.ini -h -s -r

press enter then write

del autorun.ini

close everything and restart your computer.

Comment if you need any more help.

Comments

2 Comments on Fixing disk drives not opening with double click

  1. slayerz on Sat, 10th Jan 2009 5:25 am
  2. I think U had made a typing error. It’s not autorun.ini but autorun.inf

  3. PsMan on Sat, 10th Jan 2009 10:53 am
  4. Yep you r correct.
    But it was not a typing error it was a mistake.
    autorun.inf

    Thanks

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