Codecs causing Explorer crashes, Cure?

[TBoneit]

Hopefully in the right forum. If not Mods Please Move

One or more of the codecs in my system is causing the windows explorer to crash after a period of usage.

Basically the desktop crashes (XP Pro).

It happens after copy/move from one drive to another or delete. Not the first time but as I do this repeatedly, sooner or later the crash will happen, the computer will appear to freeze when opening a drive letter, But a DVD burn keeps going with no problems, Ctrl/alt/delete task manager close the frozen drive letter, desktop crashes and reloads and works for a while til I delete etc.

If I don't do the copy/move/delete it'll run all day with no problems. I know it is about to happen when opening a drive letter and Zonealarm asks in I want to let windows explorer access the internet.

Scanned for viruses, spyware and am clean. Norton Av, Adaware, Spybot S & D and a third spyware catcher plus things like CWShredder and HiJack This.

I'm pretty sure it's a codec problem since I did it to another machine when I was adding codecs to do video work on it too.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
Roger

[kiboy6]

I have the exact same problem - anybody have any solution to this - it so annoying!!!!

I foolishly used the gordian-knot codec pack ~(before i knew that the packs are best avoided!)

uninstalling ffdshow does not seem to make a difference


Thanks in advance