I Need Codec management help

[TBoneit]

I have some codecs on my PC that I want to remove and I can not find them.

I have tried DXMan and it doesn't seem to show what I need and looking in the video codecs of the sound and devices of the controil panel. . I'm pretty sure they are causing a problem with the desktop crashing when deleting video files. At some during the process of deleting un-needed media files be they MPG or AVI the desktop crashes and relaods. Not a biggy except it also tosses and settings for folders such as list vs icons vs tile etc. under view settings. The reason I believe they are there is that I recently installed a version of Vdub and it said I had several codecs installed that were known to cause instability. It hasn't indicated since what ones and I didn't take notes. I can't seem to find where to make vdub show what ones again either.

Thanks in Advance for any help.

[BJ_M]

dxman is still the best bet --

but what you describe sounds more like system errors

[TBoneit]

I'd agree except that I trashed two systems that exhibit the exact same behavior now after I loaded the same (more or less) set of codecs on them. Not totally trashed of course.

But whatever it is doesn't seem to like deletion of files. No peer to peer s/w installed. scanned for viruses and Spyware/Adware. Doesn't affect speed. Just crashes whatever I delete with. IE if I delete with Windows Explorer it'll crash afetr a short period of doing so. If I convert and then delete with TMPGenc Plus it'll crash it after several deletes too.

And of course I'm thinking Codecs since when the pegasys stuff is running it happens much quicker than if no codec using s/w is loaded.

Strangely enough it doesn't touch IE windows or other running programs. It doesn't even cause a problem when it happens during burning a DVD, That completes and plays OK.

I'm suspecting that it is tied into old codecs I don't need anymore such as Divx3.11 and Mpeg4 ?

But I can't find them on the system to delete/uninstall.

Thanks