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30. April 2008 @ 02:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That process seems to end randomly, its weird cuz it my computer is really fast and clean, yet sometimes ill just double click on a folder and BOOM! everything dissaperes... :( but...how?
2GB ram nvidia GeForce5200FX 120GB HDD Windows XP home

Also ive allways wondered, how come if you have linux or mac, they start up extreamly fast and as soon as the desktop comes up after loging it its ready, but windows takes years, even if all 3 of them are packed evenly! :o

thx for anyhelp, plus any idea on that speedstream modem? :|
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3. May 2008 @ 11:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Alright, I'm talking from experience.

#1. You may have a virus

#2. Once I had in correctly installed the xVid codec, and whenever I opened a file with any kind of xVid file in it, Explorer would crash. I'm not sure how you would source this problem out, but this was my issue.


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3. May 2008 @ 13:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
try the following if your using windows xp. It was a simple fix for my problem.

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.


If you need an explorer to watch video thumbnails (without crashing) use the free xnview, it works great.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownload.html
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4. May 2008 @ 10:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks much :D
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