re: Getting past the 100% CPU bug and delete bad AVI file Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at 12:06 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by downtimeguy (1 messages posted) This is related to everyone who has the problem with broken AVI files overthrowing Explorer.exe and running the CPU at 100% even when you're trying to ditch the files. I get the "...Cannot delete ****.avi, it is being used by another person or program..." message alert when I try to delete one, and immediately the CPU goes on overdrive. For Win XP atleast, this fix allowed me to finally delete the corrupt file. It seems that if you at some point 'right-click' & select 'Properties' on a broken media file, even if you maybe didn't hit the 'Preview' tab which relates to the problem with WMP, the CPU overdrive glitch arises more often than not because XP does not release the file after gathering the information that it displays when you 'right-click' a movie file and go to 'Properties'. I guess that only a corrupt media file causes this unique problem because XP can't complete its 'Properties' or 'Preview' task and won't give up. Here is a fix that ought to end that loop and allow you to delete a bad avi file. I don't know if any other media file causes the same problem, but this is only for AVI. 1. Open up regedit 2. Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler 3. Delete the "Default" value which should be "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}" Restart and try deleting the file now. I don't know if this is a permanent fix for avi files or just stops the current problem with the broken file. But a good policy from now on....IF YOU SUSPECT A MEDIA FILE IS CORRUPT, DON'T RIGHT-CLICK FOR PROPERTIES OR TRY AND PREVIEW FILE WITHIN WINDOWS EXPLORER. Written in response to: re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (antonumia: Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 7:18 am) 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