I was stuck with a very unusual problem(at least for me!) last week. When I tried to open(by double clicking) my D drive on my notebook, it refused to open automatically, and instead, the OPEN WITH pop up box came on my screen asking me what program I wanted to use to open the file. This put me in a fix and after quite a bit of searching, thankfully I found the solution to it.

Since what I found was slightly complex, here’s a simplified and easy to follow version to solve this problem on all your Windows based computers/laptops.

  1. Run Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or right click on Taskbar)
  2. Stop wscript.exe process if available by highlighting the process name and clicking End Process.
  3. Then terminate explorer.exe process.

  4. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task->Run.
  5. Type “cmd” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
  6. Type the following command one by one followed by hitting Enter key:
    • del c:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
    • del d:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
    • del e:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a

    Here, c, d, e each represents drive letters on Windows system. If there are more drives or partitions available, continue by altering the other drive letters. Note that you must also clean the autorun files from USB flash drive or portable hard disk as the external drive may also be infected.

  7. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task
  8. Type “regedit” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
  9. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
  10. Check if the value name and value data for the key is correct (the value data of userint.exe include the path which may be different than C drive, which is also valid, note also the comma which is also needed): “Userinit”=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,” If the value is incorrect, modify it to the valid value data.

Guess this will be of help to a lot of people who are suffering from the same problem!

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