re: sadly, this is only a cosmetic change Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 1:09 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by rival (1 messages posted) It worked great for the first reply to XP - I would have explorer suck up 99% on corupt video or video with strange codecs. After changing the key {c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590} as stated in the post above, I could click on these files and my hard drive and explorer would not go nuts. This is an awesome fix for XP - sorry if the W2K doesnt work as well... windows xp embedded media player SUCKS!!! On Friday, June 20, 2003 at 9:29 pm, CSilver wrote: >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: sadly, this is only a cosmetic change (CSilver: Friday, June 20, 2003 at 9:29 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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