hover over avi, explorer error

[gooberguy]

everytime i hover over any avi file, iget this message. after clickign ok or cancel my explorer does a quick restart and i lose my taskbar and some tray icons. its very annoying, and if anyone has any insight please help. thanks in advance.

[drewzor]

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[gooberguy]

i downloaded avicodec and played around with it for a bit to no avail. i even disabled every video codec, and then tried it but the message still comes up.

[Soopafresh]

I've had that as well. Try this:



From the Start-->Run icon in Windows, enter

regsvr32 /u "c:\windows\system32\shmedia.dll"

[gooberguy]

haha awesome, i dont know what it did, but it did the trick! thanks!

[drewzor]

For those of you who would like to know what this does

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