sadly, this is only a cosmetic change Friday, June 20, 2003 at 9:29 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by CSilver (2 messages posted) The advice given will seem to work for XP users, but... even though the embedded WMP preview is disabled, the change is surprisingly only cosmetic. I have a few large and corrupted AVI files that will not preview. Rather than display nothing, Explorer slowly likes to suck up 100% of the CPU, and eventually brings my machine to its knees. After making the given registry edits, the thumbnail is gone from the details pane. But when clicking on these large files my machine still quickly spins out of control. Written in response to: re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Johnny Ryall: Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 6:32 pm) Responses to this message: re: sadly, this is only a cosmetic change (rival: Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 1:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Francisco: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 8:19 am) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Cainofnod: Mon, Mar 10, 2003, 4:38 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Johnny Ryall: Sun, Apr 13, 2003, 6:32 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Francisco: Mon, Apr 14, 2003, 3:18 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (PechE: Mon, May 5, 2003, 7:23 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (FlyCat: Fri, May 23, 2003, 6:34 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (mm: Sat, Jun 14, 2003, 12:11 am) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Forrest Marvez: Wed, Jun 18, 2003, 7:15 am) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Francisco: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 10:33 am) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (AZ: Fri, Oct 17, 2003, 8:10 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Forrest Marvez: Sat, Oct 18, 2003, 2:27 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (K.Reykdal: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 6:18 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Allen Roller: Tue, Nov 11, 2003, 9:44 pm) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (antonumia: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 7:18 am) re: Getting past the 100% CPU bug and delete bad AVI file (downtimeguy: Tue, Nov 11, 2003, 12:06 pm) sadly, this is only a cosmetic change (CSilver: Fri, Jun 20, 2003, 9:29 pm) re: sadly, this is only a cosmetic change (rival: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 1:09 am) re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (mk: Tue, Dec 9, 2003, 2:27 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum