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Cannot Open Drive in Windows? Encountering “Open With” Dialog Instead?

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Here is the situation: you open a drive in Windows explorer like usual by clicking it, but instead of the content of the drive you encounter the Open With dialog. Or, some of you may find a message saying like “Windows cannot find this program or file“.

If you cannot open a drive, it could be a virus infecting your computer and perform some changing on the registry that causes the “Open With” dialog or the error message “cannot find this program or file” comes up when you click C drive. Even if you are able to remove the virus completely, you will still not be able to open the drive in your Windows explorer until you fix it.

If this situation happens, you could try Disk Healer as the free solution.

Disk Healer provides an array of features that lets you to tweak your Windows and fix errors that are commonly left by virus infection. Beside ability to fix the problem of being unable to open drive, this free program also enables you to fix the following problems:

• unable to launch task manager
• unable to open Folder Options
• cannot open registry editor
• “missing” files or folders that are hidden by virus and since the Folder Options is disabled you cannot unhide the files or folders through it

Make sure that you have completely remove the virus infecting your computer before you run this program to do the fixing.

The tweaking features itself covers a lot of modifications that are intended both for providing more protection to your computer by disabling certain Windows features such as registry editor, and a few more convenience by the possibility to change drive icon.

Disk Healer is a freeware that requires Windows Vista, XP, 2000 or NT and administrator privileges.

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