Karen,
Here is a link that seems to describe your problem and a simple registry fix is required to fix it.:
Search Companion Starts If You Double-Click a Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;321186
Hope this helps.
Grif
I am operating Win XP Pro and in the start menu on my computer it opens in the search window. On the desktop i r/click and it still opens in search i don't know how to fix this and i'm having to go thru explore to get into this. Hope you can help.
Karen

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