Folders/drives won't open, search window shows

Sometimes, you can't open any of your folders by clicking or double clicking on them, none of the drives or external drives as well. It bring sup a window with the search prompt, as in how you would search a drive or search your computer from Windows.

This is because when a virus infects a windows system which causes a drive opening problem, it automatically creates a file named autorun.inf in the root directory of each drive.

This autorun.inf file is a read only, hidden and a system file and the folder option is also disabled by the virus. This is deliberately done by the virus in order to protect itself. autorun.inf initiates all the activities that the virus performs when you try to open any drive.

1. First of all, find out the autorun.inf file in the drive.
2. Then delete the autorun.inf file from the drive.
3. Open Notepad and save empty file as "autorun.inf" in C:\ drive.
4. Similarly repeat above step for all your hard disk partition.
5. Restart your system and your immediate troubles will be fixed.

However it will be recommended to scan your computer.