Win XP and broken AVI files

[blmjr]

I just found a solution to a problem that's been driving me crazy. I have a broken avi file and my computer locks up when I click on it to even delete it - yikes!

I'm not too comfortable in mucking around in the registry, but I tried this and it worked like a champ.

Hope this helps someone else.


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XP won't let you delete an AVI file? Look here...

There is a problem that XP exhibits in deleting or moving broken AVI
files...it won't let you!

The reason is when an AVI file is clicked on/highlighted, shmedia.dll by
default reads the entire contents of the file before allowing any access
to the file.

Basically what this means is: as soon as you right click a broken avi
file, shmedia.dll hangs and won't allow further file access to delete the
broken file. Pretty screwed up...but

THERE IS A FIX!!!

-Simply delete the following registry key to prevent Explorer from loading
shmedia.dll in response to file queries on these files.

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D 94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32
"

[Tommyknocker]

Nice post. But you may have wanted to do a Search before posting. You would have found this.

[blmjr]

Tommy,

Well, gosh, now I just feel silly.

I should have know a resource like this site would have delt with this issue long before. I did search for it here but maybe not the right key words.

Anyway, my heart was in the right place, it was my head that was out to lunch...

[Tommyknocker]

BLM,Jr. wrote:

Well, gosh, now I just feel silly.

Don't you dare!

That was not my intention. I meant just what I said, it is a nice post, and please post again, if you come across something like that. You may just solve the problem that has haunted the gurus around here for years!