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Fed up of using your flash because you can’t open it by double clicking on it?! Getting that annoying error message or the ‘open with’ dialog asking you to select a program to open a drive?! Worry no more!

This is caused when a virus assigns the virus itself to run as auto run of your drive and an anti virus program removes the virus, so now the program is assigned to run at auto run but the program isn’t there anymore so it displays the error message.

Your solution – Disk Heal. This program fixes this program in just two or three clicks. All you have to do is go to the ‘fix’ page and type the drive letter and click ‘fix’, restart the computer and you are done! It’s as easy as that.

Fixing it manually

As much as the program does it with just a few clicks you might want to know how to do it manually.

• First goto My Computer > Tools > Folder Options
• Uncheck ’show hidden files and folders’ and ‘hide protected operating system files’
• Goto the parent directory of your faulty drive.
• You’ll see a file named ‘Autorun’.
• Delete it.
• Re-insert your drive and/or restart the computer and try opening your drive now.
• It should work
• That’s it!

You might want to revert to the previous settings of checking back the above mentioned preferences. They are left checked by default for your own safety in case you might delete a system file which could prove really costly sometimes.

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Updated - March 16th 2008

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