IT Queries: Computer problems answered

“In my computer when I double click on any of the drives I am getting the “open with” option to “choose the program you want to use to open this file:” & when I right click on the Drives I am getting “Auto” as  first option instead of  “open” what should I do?”

It sound like the drives has some files that Windows wants to run when it first looks at the drive.

The quickest way to fix this is to move as many files as possible into folders. This way Windows won’t assume you want that drive to run programs or videos. It’s good computer practice to keep what we call the root directory free of junk for this reason.

One of the most common culprits for this is an autorun.inf sitting in your root directory. Make sure you move any files that finish in .inf into another folder.

If your “c” drive that’s doing this then be very careful about moving files out of the root directory. It might be best to get a tech who knows which files are important to the Windows system.

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