Sorry to beg on my first post.

I get this every time I open 'My Videos' folder. The folder consists of, as most peoples do, several other folders of different stars, and inside these are the various videos. AVI, MPEG, DivX, MP4, Xvid etc. I have tried a fresh reload of XP, then created new folders and put all the videos back inside - still crashes. I have copied the entire 'My Videos' folder to my second hard drive (All 75Gigs ) Even then when I open it up, it crashes.

I can play all the videos, I can drag one out onto my desktop as that error box taunts me, everything works fine except Explorer crashing and closing all open folders leaving me back at square one.

I have heard there is some sort of AVI bug, but never found anything of substance to explain it. I use CC Cleaner to fix the registry, and am on XP with Service Pack 2. All updated. Klite Mega pack installed.

Anyone else here have this annoying problem, thanks for any help.

Make sure your folders are not set to 'preview' mode (i.e. you see the contents on the folder) - this has caused crashes for me b4

How do I switch it off? I have checked in TOOLS/FOLDER OPTIONS but can't see preview mode. Sorry to sound dumb, but if I can't see them, how will I use them.

Preview mode is actually 'thumbnails' - sorry 4 confusion! Right click over empty space in the root folder, choose 'view' and select anything but thumbnails

Thanks, I'll give that a go.

Hey it seems to work - you're a genius. Still Bill Gates should hang his head in shame.

It's probably only one video file causing the corruption, but I never found out why it should be so!

usualy caused by bad encoding in the first place.. i record a lot of tv into mpeg and when the signal drops out (high winds blow the antenna silly) it does that glitching thing.. i got fed up with trying to do the 5second open-delete file so i downloaded ExplorerXP and use that to open my videos without crashing...

If you wish to turn thumbnails back on...

go to start -> run and type "regsvr32 /u vsfilter.dll" (without the quotes) and press enter.

Try again, and let us know if the problem still exists or not.

It hasn't happened since I changed everything to ICONS or TILES. I do have another related little problem though, everytime I open My Videos folder my CPU goes to 100%. I have to shut down Explorer, and restart it in Task Manager -warning ending this process could, etc etc. It's all a conspiricy to sell more copies of VISTA.

That's a shame

Did your problem stop after you tried the command I posted above?

If I turn thumbnails back on won't it start crashing again? Or is that a fix for the problem?

That is a theoretical fix for the problem (or in other words, I make no guarentees, but it may well be the answer from a logical perspective). It unregisters the dll that at first is causing the problem. Try it, and then try switching back to thumbnail view. If you don't use vobsub video subtitles, you could even unregister and then delete it.

...that's all it does.

now for the simple statement that's hard to follow... Be aware also that if you have both DivX and Xvid codecs installed, you may have a conflict between them, in which case it would be best to uninstall DivX as Xvid can handle playback of DivX files.

I never could find an easy way to say that. lol

Failed. The specific module could not be found. I'll try getting rid of DivX. Thanks for the help.

hi guys, 1st post. i have the same problem as the original poster. however, when i try to change it to something other than thumbnails it still closes explorer momentarily and when i go back to my videos it gives me the error and is set to thumbnails again . could you please help? also i've tried downloading several programs to play avi files and they all give the "encountered an error" message and crash. avi's played fine in Ares until this problem arose a couple of weeks ago.

Go to Start/Run/and type - regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll click OK.

Thanks a lot! It appears as that just fixed the problem!!!!!! No more error messages!

Yep Im havgin the same exact problem. It happened to me before and now on a different pc same exact thing. I think the AVI problem might have some thing to do with it since it only does it in my video folder. Sure would like to know the fix! If you find one please post, thanks alot

Sucks I didnt think of that lol, thanks alot, my life has changed for the better lol
I have 200g of movies on that file.

I was having the same problem with opening certain avi files....windows explorer would crash....but if i was quick enough i could attempt to open it with winamp, but of course that crashed as well.... so i tried the start/run regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll, and that fixed windows explorer from crashing but now i can't open the video without winamp or windows media player crashing....any ideas? Any help would be great, thanks!!

it could be a corrupt video file...