XP Windows Explorer Avi Problem

I seem to have an unusual version of this problem. I have four hard drives and this only happens on one of them. No problems with avi files one three, but on the fourth the system hangs up if I try to copy or play avi files. I tried the solutions above, creating the bat files shimgvwoff.bat, shimgvwon.bat, shmediaoff.bat, shmediaon.bat. They had some effect, but I still could not play the files. Hanging up the system was not as bad.

I seem to have an unusual version of this problem. I have four hard drives and this only happens on one of them. No problems with avi files one three, but on the fourth the system hangs up if I try to copy or play avi files. I tried the solutions above, creating the bat files shimgvwoff.bat, shimgvwon.bat, shmediaoff.bat, shmediaon.bat. They had some effect, but I still could not play the files. Hanging up the system was not as bad.

thank naja..

i also have another version of this problem - removing media preview by using the command “Start->Run, type in 'regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll' hit enter” worked, but only as far as beeing able to copy avi. files... still not able to play them, anyone got a solution???

I have a bunch of issues that overnight started to happen.I can no longer play any video file on the web. If I plug in a jumpdrive my windows explorer turns some embedded objects into blank spaces with a little red x in the top corner. And now at times I get an error message that a library object is not located. HP customer support has been useless as well as the Microsoft website.

Does anyone have any ideas on what is causing this and a possible fix?

Only problem is I also lose my thumbnails if I do regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll — Is there any way anyone knows of getting rid of the duration and dimensions without losing the ability to view videos as thumbnails?

Thank-you! Thank-you! It was driving me crazy with all the windows closing error messages. Now I have solved my problem with regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll Thanks to everyone who helped solve it!

REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL work well for me GREAT Thanks.

Thank you for this fix:

“4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll "


It did the trick.

Kilroy

Hope this helps someone. I once had a problem with opening my pictures and spent around 3 hours trying to work out the problem. I tried the SFC/SCANNOW trick, the chkdsk /r method and scanning with AVG. It turned out to be a 3rd party codec programme. I went to Add/Remove programmes and deleted the codec programme. Once that happened I no longer got those annoying 'Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close'. My advice is to avoid 3rd party codecs at all costs. If you notice this pop up then check to see if you have any 3rd party codecs like ffds show. Delete anything like this and it should work.
Sorry for being a bit long winded XD.

2DSM2 wrote: Hope this helps someone. I once had a problem with opening my pictures and spent around 3 hours trying to work out the problem. I tried the SFC/SCANNOW trick, the chkdsk /r method and scanning with AVG. It turned out to be a 3rd party codec programme. I went to Add/Remove programmes and deleted the codec programme. Once that happened I no longer got those annoying 'Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close'. My advice is to avoid 3rd party codecs at all costs. If you notice this pop up then check to see if you have any 3rd party codecs like ffds show. Delete anything like this and it should work.
Sorry for being a bit long winded XD.

THANK YOU 2DSM2! I’ve have spent days trying to solve this problem! I’ve deleted the 'ffds show' codec and everything works again. The funny thing is, 'ffds show' was installed months back and never had a problem with it till a couple of days ago. But im happy everything is back to normal

hi i have the same problem with my memory i used to have a fuji s8000fd but i sell the camera and i cant take my videos out of the memory please help

I have tried almost all of the before mentioned
workarounds.
the only thing that worked for me was to boot into safe mode and rename the respective avi files.
Apparently one can rename the file to its original
(Crash producing)name with WE and not have any further problems.

Its because explorer queries the index of the file, and if there is no value it loops and loops the whole file. and when the file is large it is a damn sow process.

how to fix it:

1. Open up regedit.exe.

2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

3. Export the PropertyHandler key just in case.

4. Delete the “Default” value which should be "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}"

Fixed the problem for me. let me know if it works for you.

BarbershopJohn comment works. I try and it successfully works..thanks

If you know where the corrupted AVI file is, simply do the following instead of doing Registery bull**** edits:

1: open a folder any folder that doesn’t contain AVI files.

2: Right click, select View, then click on Tiles or any other option but don’t select Thumbnails.

3: Go in to the directory that contains the corrupted AVI and simply delete it.

Then this will prevent you from getting “Explorer needs to close, we are sorry for any inconvenince” because of the shitty shmedia.dll file in the future.

wow
found this topic through google
really a life saver, im like opennig avi files from cmd for a month now
and now its solved
thanks.

Good stuff bro. Im glad google helped out.

Hey I’m having a similar problem but my computer is freezing any program I’m trying to use shuts down say there is an error. Will the above fixes fix that or is this somthing totally different??


Thanks in Advance

sorry last post should have read my computer is not freezing but any well you see the rest

Thanks again