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Drives are not opening by double click. What to do ?

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If it happens to you that you are not able to open the drives by double-click, then your system may be infected with virus. When this virus infects your windows, it automatically creates a autorun.inf in the root directory of each drive. This autorun.inf file is usually hidden, read only and is a system file. This virus also disables folder option. This is not a major problem and can be fixed by deleting autorun.inf file.

Follow the steps below to fix this problem:

  1. Open Start > Run. Now type cmd and press enter. Command prompt window will open.
  2. Type cd/
  3. Type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf
  4. Now type del autorun.inf
  5. Now type d: and press enter for d: drive partition and repeat steps 3 and 4.
  6. Repeat step 5 for all your hard disk drives.
  7. Restart your computer.

Also Read: 9 Best Free Tools To Protect Your PC From AUTORUN.INF File

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2 Comments

  1. Atif
    March 4, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Great Tutorial Simran, Thanks For sharing

  2. TechVista
    March 4, 2011 at 11:54 am

    i can’t though it would be so easy to remove virus. for me i was always formatted the system.

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