A Window crashes, when RIGHT click on a some media files...

[pcexpress-guy]

the files play, but when I right click on it, after a long wait the window crashes, adn I get a send in report dialog box to microsoft saying it crashed and had to shut down.

I don't know what the deal is... the media file itself can be played if left click as usual, but when I right click on some of these files it crashes the windows.

I tried...

to copy to a different folder... copy was successful, but any problems came with the copied version.

Tried to repropagate the rights (windows xp) but this was not an issue.

Something is crashes... I just don't know what is.

Can you help with some ideas?

Thanks!

[NYPlayer]

pcexpress-guy

I had this problem when I had an old version of Divx 5.2.1 installed. I uninstalled Divx....downloaded the latest build and re-installed Divx and the problem went away.


Here is something you might want to look at.


http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.php?topic=60461&forum=24

The latest build of Divx fixes this problem.

[pcexpress-guy]

You know, I don't have divx installed

by installing it, would it fix it. That would be cool.

There is something going on with this desktop as I was able (over a network) access the files, and right click it and use it as standard.

I wonder if some of the right click things I added such as winace, might be crashing this?

Can I disable stuff on the right click menu from opening? TooL?

Thanks!

[Mallorca]

Get SHELLEXVIEW....

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

...which allows you to disable items in the right click context menu. From personal experience sometimes this causes an Explorer crash and disabling the item fixes it.
The items you are interested in, in the ShellExView window are labelled Context Menu under the heading Type. Left click Type to sort, then select and right-click an item and choose Disable.
Try disabling everything that looks like an add-in and, if problem is fixed, then re-enable one at a time to establish cause of problem.

[bazooka]

It could be a corrupt file.

[pcexpress-guy]

I think the files are good. The file over the network on another computer (clean install) can access these files. Which makes me think some right click handler that was added after install on the problem machine is at fault.

So... not sure how to reset the handlers.. but this tool may be helpful indeed.

ThankS!

[tdan]

See if this helps:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245068&highlight=

[thinger62]

I've got a similar, but not as severe problem. Whenever I right click on a video file my monitor blacks out for a second and then comes back. I've posted this on a few forums and never had any luck with an explanation or fix. I'm wondering if it is related to yours. I'm using xp, maybe instead of crashing, it recovers itself in my case...This only happens with video files, no other kind.