XP Windows Explorer Avi Problem

The problem can b in different registry keys. What most often works is this.

Start - Run - Regedit - Edit - Find - .avi

The first registry folder u`ll find is placed in:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Folder name: .avi

DELETE IT!

Easy as that! Hope it helps any1!

quide wrote: thanks!

The “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler Delete the “Default” value”
worked great!

now i don’t have to run cmd when i just want to see a movie.. :^D

Also worked for me, thanks a lot!

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When i work in the computer i got the following message,
Windows explorer has encountered a problem, needs to close. sorry for the inconvenience.
Kindly help me to solve the above problem.
Also I received the following message,

AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 022c16ce

Just to share my experience here with the colleagues, I had the same problem after removing a memory stick from my laptop without using the Safe Remove Hardware feature.

After that, two photos got corrupted, and even after I booted using Linux to delete the photos, my windows still frozen after start up. It is quite surprise that I’m talking about a completely frozen situation (with mouse and CTRL+ALT+DEL without working ...)

Anyway, Thanks for this post. It worked fine to me!

Hey, thnx ppl , gr8 work !!

whenever i opened a folder with .avi files in them explorer and dr watson crashed freezing my machine (win xp, SP2) searched for ages then found this tread... thanks the regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll fixed my problem!!

I had the same problem as described.
I downloaded the codec at http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ and the explorer crash when opening a video folder was fixed!!
That way you can have video preview without the explorer to crash. Thanks A lot!

Problem: In Windows 2000 Professional & Windows XP, Windows Explorer will sometimes crash when a large .AVI file is selected.

Cause: By default when certain file types are selected (music and video files) Windows Explorer will load them into a preview utility (which will be visible on the left side of the folder pane [the right pane]). If the file is large/abnormal then it may cause Windows Explorer to crash. This can often happen with large .AVI files.

Work around: The Windows Explorer file preview utility [in the right pane] can be switched off (customised) in 2000 & XP. Any folder which may contain large/abnormal .AVI files should be customized not to use the file preview utility. To do this just right click in a folder/file pane that might contain abnormal/large .AVI files [the right hand pane]. Then left click on ‘Customize this folder…’. Then use a template/view format which does not use the image preview utility.

Thanks for the fix. This solved the problem which had me wanting to re-install windows xp. I’m glad I found this fix before I went through that option.

BarbershopJohn wrote: Hi anonymous, many tks, I found it and here’s the text for anyone else who may have the same problem sometime. “Windows XP Explorer has a 'feature' to provide a preview in the Details box on the left of the file you have selected, if it’s supported. Image files, HTML pages, video clips, MP3s, etc are all previewed (even with the folder view open).
If you have a large movie clip and it either is corrupt (ie. no index from a partial download) or it uses an unsupported codec, then Explorer tries to load the whole file. This can slow your computer a lot and prevent deleting/renaming/moving/etc the file until it’s finished.
Simply do the following steps:
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
3) To readd image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
5) To readd media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shmedia.dll


The Credit goes to http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak2123.aspx”
regards John

Hi,
i have XP Pro with SP2 and very laggy browsing in the explorer, when a folder contains some video files. After a while i noticed that this was because of this awful video preview thumbnail window in the explorer.

So i executed “REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL” and now i can browse all dirs without any lag or system slowdowns (choppy video playback).

Thx for this helpful thread!

thomaswww

Open this url and downlaod the second file, it will work!

http://www.miniconomy.com/promote.php?code=ynxtcrcri3

Thank you much!

The DivX AllInOneFix1_81 fixed the problem thank god i did not reload my system. it seems that would not have solved the issue

thomaswww wrote: Hi,
i have XP Pro with SP2 and very laggy browsing in the explorer, when a folder contains some video files. After a while i noticed that this was because of this awful video preview thumbnail window in the explorer.

So i executed “REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL” and now i can browse all dirs without any lag or system slowdowns (choppy video playback).
thomaswww

do people saying this mean that they just typed that one line in the command prompt? (just uninstalled it and not reinstalled it?)

Thanks, regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll, worked perfectly!

I have seen many solutions and answers but I have had this happen to me twice, both times it was the h264codec ! 1st time it was from avs converter and today it came from my pinnacle software. pinnacle was fine TILL i disconnected it and then it gave problems on the codec.
So everyone having these problems, do a search on your computer for the codec and uninstall that program or if possible just the codec.

I have exactly the same problem, everytime I open a folder that has avi files, my explorer freezes! I thought I’ve got a virus or something... but “regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll” really did fix my problem. Thanks a lot for the advice!

Window 2000 work around:

In Windows Explorer select Tools -> Folder Options.
Under the “General” Tab, in “Web View” category, select to “Use Windows Classic folders”.
Next, select “View” Tab, and uncheck/disable “Show pop-up description for folder and desktop

items”

Of course with this disabled you don’t see pop-up descriptions on desktop items or any other

folder items (such as pdf, rar, zip, chm, txt files or any other types of file)

When the pop-up description is enabled, I guess Windows is trying to read the file for some info

to display in the pop-up description. For large avi files (700+ mb) it must be reading the large

avi file for some info that seems to consume 100% cpu for a short time.

In short, just disable the pop-up descriptions.