I never used to have this problem and so am puzzled as to what might be causing this problem lately. I have Gateway XP PC. I use Real Player to download lots of flash videos from CollegeHumor and YouTube. My prolbem is that when I view my "videos" folder and the images of the files appear, I recieve and error message telling me some errors have occured and that this program must shut down. I do the alt cntrl delete thing and tell the programs to shut down and they do, but not until several minutes later. There's nothing wrong with the files I'm attempting to watch. They were downloaded from safe places. But for some reason, certin flv files cause my PC to freeze and I am unable to delete them because as soon as the image shows up everything freezes. Any ideas as to how I can remedy this problem?
You can try this, It fixed my problem on windows xp pro.
Description: When opening folders with movie files in them, windows explorer (the desktop) crashes.
Problem: This is a known issue with Windows XP's braindead video thumbnail thing in Explorer. Being a thing invented by MS, it's buggy and doesn't always know how to handle things not supported by MS, and occasionally fails on things it does know how to support too. Every now and again it will crash and take Explorer down with it. Easy to solve thankfully.
Solution:
Windows XP:
* Go to Start -> Run... and type
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
Press enter. Done. It's as simple as that. If you, for some reason want it back, simply do the same thing again, but remove the "/u". That is: Start -> Run...
regsvr32 shmedia.dll
This will only disable movie thumbnails/previews, not picture thumbnails.
Note this will disable the video thumbnails. If you need to see thumbnails use the free xnview, it won't crash your computer.
