Problem with AVI and explorer...

Hi,

Since about a day or two, when I try to browse my .avi files in Explorer, sometimes, my cursor give me the little "sandclock" waiting thing. When it happens, my explorer freeze and if I look in Task Manager, drwatson is running. After a while, drwatson terminate anormaly and stall. The only way to unfreeze everything is to shut down explorer.exe or drwtsn32.exe in task manager. I didn't have that problem before.I checked for viruses too and nothing...

Any idea?

 

You checked for viruses, which is good. But did you check for spyware?

 

Do this to desactivate media preview:
Run > regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

If that fixes the problem, check that none of ur avi files are corrupted or using an codec unknown by ur system. If one is, delete it (or move it if it's just a missing codec pb) and reactivate media preview :
run> regsvr32 shmedia.dll

 

Thanks, The media preview stopped solve my problem... I can play the media with WMV but only the previews seems to cause problems...

PS: No spywares or viruses founded...

 

Ok. That is an issue with the preview of media files in explorer, that little snapshot displayed in the left panel when u select an avi file.
If explorer can't display the preview image, it get stuck while trying to open the whole avi. If u open ur task manager, u should see explorer use 100% of the cpu.

Try that in the registry:
1. back up ur current registry ( "export ")
2. In HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
delete the "default" value

If it doesn't work for u, u can restore that line by restoring ur previous registry.