Windows Explorer crashes...

[Bark4Soul]

I dont know where to start with this, ever since I formatted, certain /avi's make my windows explorer crash when I try to access it, can anyone tell me why this would be or can I post something for someone? 've been trying to watch an eisode of 24 for days now and I cant cause it's crashing my stuff! Please, any ideas here would help at least give me insight as to why this is going down!!

 

[Po`Girl]

That`s the old thumbnail preview problem.

Windows trys to show thumbnails of vids and pics,only

it crashes Explorer in the process.

To turn off previews -

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

to turn them on again(if you want to) regsvr32 shmedia.dll

You can copy and paste those into the run box.

More HERE

 

[Bark4Soul]

Well now my Windows Media Player is crashing too, I did what u suggested earlier, and tested it, the first video crashed my WMP, any other ideas....heh?

 

[Po`Girl]

Did you look at that LINK I gave you ?

That explains how to deregister both media and image previews,

using run commands.I`m not saying you didn`t do it right,but maybe I am really

There is also a registry fix if your comfortable in the registry(backup the key first) -

Run regedit and find the following key :-

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

Delete the "Default" value then close.

Please read that link first. There are a few other ways of achieving the same result.

 

[Bark4Soul]

Imma try and get the newest version of DivX, it seemed to fix some of those guy issues then ill mess with Reg Edit, thanx Po!

 

[dattyy]

Bark4soul, I have the same problems as you have described. I've tried the

1) Open a command window (Start->Run, type in 'cmd' hit enter)
2) To remove image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll
4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

from the prescribed link to disable my media and image previews. But, that only fixes the explorer crashing problem. My WMP (and WMC) still crashes when I attempt to play an avi file.

I've tried to delete the default key but it's read only (I don't have permission to delete or remove the read-only permission).

I've even amended the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SOFTWARE >Classes > CLSID > {87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}> InProcServer32

key according to this post http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v31/vic31.htm (which was a link from your link Po).

Have you fixed the problem Bark4soul or do you have any other ideas Po'Girl?

 

[windmill007]

Maybe update your codecs on your machine. You may not have the correct codecs installed for whatever avi u r trying to watch.

 

[dattyy]

I uninstalled and reinstalled my codec's and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks windmill007!!