The Trouble With AVI Movies In Windows XP
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/16/2003 11:44 PM [ Print | 16 comment(s) ] · 8421 views
Just spotted this bit of Info over at Rojakpot.com
Whenever I click or open certain AVI movies in Windows XP, Windows Explorer would lock up and cause the entire system to come to a standstill. You also cannot edit or delete these AVI movies! Why? Why? Why???! Because this is yet another Windows XP bug. Don't take it the wrong way. I love Windows XP. It's the most stable Windows OS ever. But this bug sure has bugged me (pun intended!) long enough! It's time to fix it once and for all!
Whenever I click or open certain AVI movies in Windows XP, Windows Explorer would lock up and cause the entire system to come to a standstill. You also cannot edit or delete these AVI movies! Why? Why? Why???! Because this is yet another Windows XP bug. Don't take it the wrong way. I love Windows XP. It's the most stable Windows OS ever. But this bug sure has bugged me (pun intended!) long enough! It's time to fix it once and for all!
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wb22gprix Unregistered |
#50177 Posted on: 12/17/2003 12:00 AM
Never encountered any kind of problem like that. |
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El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18 |
#50180 Posted on: 12/17/2003 12:40 AM
its not specific to avi files. it can happen on rare occations. |
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BaDTasTe Unregistered |
#50181 Posted on: 12/17/2003 12:44 AM
argh!!! same happens here, I got terribly nervous when I cannot rename a single AVI file o even delete it!!!!!!! My Workaround that used to work: Start Nero 5.5, and then look for the AVI file in nero explorer, from there you can delete it or rename it without any problem ¿?¿?¿?¿? strange, isn't it? (does't not work with nero 6, at least for me) BaD. |
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SickRick Unregistered |
#50182 Posted on: 12/17/2003 12:54 AM
The best thing to do to manage movie files in XP is not to do it from Explorer. Pretty simple. Once you're there, you won't run into the file being "in use" and not being able to touch it. |
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Mike500 Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: 2003-08-01 |
#50183 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:05 AM
Errr.. probably if this man browsed some Windows Tips websites before, he would've known the cause and the remedy for this problem. The "can't delete/move AVI" phenomenon happens because Windows reads the infos from each AVI file when you select it (for the extended explorer folder view with resolution etc.) during which the file gets locked. Fixing it is simple: Don't let Explorer read the info. Save this as avi.reg and apply it: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations.avishellexPropertyHandler] @="" Voila. |
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Mike500 Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: 2003-08-01 |
#50184 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:07 AM
P.S. Reboot after that, of course... |
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Resident Unregistered |
#50185 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:20 AM
actually is much much easier than that just go to START MENU---> RUN and paste this regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll OK and thats it, no more locked avi files |
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Resident Unregistered |
#50186 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:21 AM
actually is much much easier than that just go to START MENU---> RUN and paste this regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll OK and thats it, no more locked avi files |
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PotHead Unregistered |
#50188 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:34 AM
I know that problem! It happens when the avi file is corrupt or too big. If u cant delete it.. just mark the file,then u will see that your harddrive is working....when its stop reading the u can delete it |
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Mike500 Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: 2003-08-01 |
#50189 Posted on: 12/17/2003 01:46 AM
Dude, read the posts, it's not because it's "corrupt or too big". It's because Explorer reads some info from the AVI (resolution, fps...) and it is locked during that. Apply the Registry file i posted or do that other trick from above. |
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Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3011 Joined: 2002-08-22 |
#50190 Posted on: 12/17/2003 08:15 AM
another solution is not to use explorer .... open command line client switch to the file .... end explorer.exe delete file start it again if there is no way to get it |
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egodeus Unregistered |
#50192 Posted on: 12/17/2003 08:41 AM
This problem got apparent when XP was out, so it's not by any means a new problem. It happens because XP is trying to parse information from a corrupt divx file (perhaps other formats as well). The index and file information of a divx file is in the end of the file and when it's incomplete XP can't find it and then start looking in the whole file. That takes "forever" if the incomplete/corrupt file is big. put this in a file called "whatever.inf", right click it and choose install, and it will be fixed. Other above methods are probably working as well, but this is the one I've used and it does the trick. ; Windows XP explorer movie fix. ; ; WARNING - Use this file at your own risk. ; ; Executing this file will remove a registry key which makes explorer load shmedia.dll. ; Simply put, this removes the annoying "permission denied" errors when trying to ; move/copy/delete AVI files. ; ; To use this fix, right-click on the file and select install. Done. ; ; Information about the registry key from multiple sources. ; Inf-file compiled by Moo (2002-03-22). ; [version] signature="$Windows NT$" [DefaultInstall] DelReg = Reduce.Reg [Reduce.Reg] HKLM, "SOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32" |
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DSC Unregistered |
#50193 Posted on: 12/17/2003 08:46 AM
Can Warp2search make the 822430 update for WinXP mentioned in the Rojakpot article available for download? |
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Agent_K Unregistered |
#50194 Posted on: 12/17/2003 09:39 AM
I had the same kind of problem, I found that it was the xvid codec that I had installed. When Windows tried to produce a thumbnail it crashed explorer. My fix was to do a search in google for a 'stable xvid codec', once I found one and downloaded it, no more problems in Windows. |
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watnaron Unregistered |
#50199 Posted on: 12/17/2003 03:31 PM
I also met that kind of problem before and the way I used to fix that problem was to uninstall the XviD then go to windows folder in your C:/ drive then go into system32 folder and try to find a file name that have XviD in it. If you find that file just have to delete it if the windows not allow it to delete just cut and paste it into different folder first before install XviD codec again. Try using XviD 1.0 Beta 2 it work quite fine for me and I think you should instal ffdshow filter and dsp2dshow filter it will help a lot. |
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Jackalo Unregistered |
#50200 Posted on: 12/17/2003 03:46 PM
A quick and simple fix for this was to 'rollup' that Details slide on the left-side of a file window under XP. But, then again, I like this registry fix.  |
