re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at 9:44 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Allen Roller (1 messages posted) Thank you! Thank you! This "feature" from microsoft has been a serious thorn in my side as it marks the file as "in use" so you cant move it delete it, rename it, etc. I am so glad I can now manage my videos without this happening again. On Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 7:15 am, Forrest Marvez wrote: >I found the key that you can add the dash to to stop it from appearing in WIN2k. >The key is > >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95} > >Simply add a dash before it and close all folders, it will stop mediaplayer from >trying to preview music, and movies, been looking for this for a long time. Written in response to: re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG (Forrest Marvez: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 7:15 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