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re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Monday, March 10, 2003 at 4:38 pm Posted by Cainofnod (4 messages posted) I just asked that same question today! I'll hook you up if anyone answers mine. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 6:32 pm Posted by Johnny Ryall (4 messages posted) I've posted this before, but i couldn't find it after i formatted and had to figure it out all over again =( This tip will disable the preview for video files, but still keeps the preview for images (which i find quite useful). open regedit and find this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590} Rename the key "{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" to "-{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" (i.e. put a dash in front of the existing name). That's it, if it doesn't work then try restarting, for me the changes were immediate. NOTE: I use XP so I'm not sure if this works on a win2K machine. If it doesn't, or if the key doesn't exist then you'll need to open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx and open the key inside (mine was called "{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" but it may be different in win2K). Open the "(default)" string value. The value inside is the one you will need to rename in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ path. Hope this helped. If you have any problems then e-mail me and let me know [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:18 pm Posted by Francisco (3 messages posted) this does not work for me :(, I didn't find the Shellex in my \.avi path either :(, I am using w2k so it may just be all together diffrent On Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 6:32 pm, Johnny Ryall wrote: >I've posted this before, but i couldn't find it after i formatted and had to figure >it out all over again =( > >This tip will disable the preview for video files, but still keeps the preview for >images (which i find quite useful). > >open regedit and find this key: > >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590} > >Rename the key "{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" to "-{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}" >(i.e. put a dash in front of the existing name). > >That's it, if it doesn't work then try restarting, for me the changes were immediate. > >NOTE: >I use XP so I'm not sure if this works on a win2K machine. If it doesn't, or if the >key doesn't exist then you'll need to open > >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx > >and open the key inside (mine was called "{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" >but it may be different in win2K). Open the "(default)" string value. The value inside >is the one you will need to rename in the > >HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ > >path. > >Hope this helped. If you have any problems then e-mail me and let me know [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Monday, May 5, 2003 at 7:23 pm Posted by PechE (1 messages posted) It didn´t work for me either, but i´ve found a "bad" solution. You have to edit the file folder.htt of EVERY folder (that´s why its bad) and delete the following part: if (wantMedia && size) { // show media preview or thumbnail based on file extension ext = name.substring(name.lastIndexOf(".") + 1, name.length); ext = ext.toLowerCase(); if (ext == 'avi' || ext == 'mov' || ext == 'qt' || ext == 'mpe' || ext == 'mpeg' || ext == 'mpg') { // show a movie player document.all.Media.innerHTML = 'object ID="Player" style="width: 160px; height: 148px" classid=clsid:05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A param name="FileName" value="' + items.Path + '" param name=ShowDisplay value=0 param name=BorderStyle value=0 /object>'; } else if (ext == 'aif' || ext == 'aifc' || ext == 'aiff' || ext == 'au' || ext == 'mid' || ext == 'rmi' || ext == 'snd' || ext == 'wav') { // show a sound player document.all.Media.innerHTML = 'object ID="Player" style="width: 160px; height: 28px" classid=clsid:05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595Aparam name="FileName" value="' + items.Path + '"param name=ShowDisplay value=0/center/object' } } I cant find the "original" folder.htt (it didn´t worked with c:\winnt\web ) so i dont know how to change ths globally. hope it helps note: i had to remove all the < > On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:18 pm, Francisco wrote: >this does not work for me :(, I didn't find the Shellex in my \.avi path either :(, > I am using w2k so it may just be all together diffrent > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Friday, May 23, 2003 at 6:34 pm Posted by FlyCat (1 messages posted) I combined the suggestions found here and found a very easy way to accomplish this. I checked my folder.htt file for the CSLID key in question (05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A in your case), renamed it and it worked instantly. Thanks On Monday, May 5, 2003 at 7:23 pm, PechE wrote: >It didn´t work for me either, but i´ve found a "bad" solution. >You have to edit the file folder.htt of EVERY folder (that´s why its bad) and delete >the following part: > >if (wantMedia && size) { >// show media preview or thumbnail based on file extension >ext = name.substring(name.lastIndexOf(".") + 1, name.length); >ext = ext.toLowerCase(); >if (ext == 'avi' || ext == 'mov' || ext == 'qt' || ext == 'mpe' || ext == 'mpeg' >|| ext == 'mpg') { >// show a movie player > >document.all.Media.innerHTML = 'object ID="Player" style="width: 160px; height: 148px" >classid=clsid:05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A param name="FileName" value="' >+ items.Path + '" param name=ShowDisplay value=0 param name=BorderStyle value=0 /object>'; >} else if (ext == 'aif' || ext == 'aifc' || ext == 'aiff' || ext == 'au' || ext == >'mid' || ext == 'rmi' || ext == 'snd' || ext == 'wav') { >// show a sound player >document.all.Media.innerHTML = 'object ID="Player" style="width: 160px; height: 28px" >classid=clsid:05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595Aparam name="FileName" value="' >+ items.Path + '"param name=ShowDisplay value=0/center/object' > } > } > >I cant find the "original" folder.htt (it didn´t worked with c:\winnt\web ) so i >dont know how to change ths globally. > >hope it helps > >note: i had to remove all the < > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 12:11 am Posted by mm (1 messages posted) I've been having similar troubles but with the media preview with sound files. I've tried changing my web\folder.htt but any time I make changes to it (any changes, even an extra space in the indents) I lose the entire left side panel. I was able to disable movie files through the web\standard.htt file but when I change it for sounds it doesn't have any effect on them no matter what I've done. I'd be very grateful for any help about this because this preview occasionally crashes the folder (or at least I think it's this) and I never use it. On Friday, May 23, 2003 at 6:34 pm, FlyCat wrote: >I combined the suggestions found here and found a very easy way to accomplish this. > >I checked my folder.htt file for the CSLID key in question (05589FA1-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A >in your case), renamed it and it worked instantly. > >Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 7:15 am Posted by Forrest Marvez (2 messages posted) 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] sadly, this is only a cosmetic change Friday, June 20, 2003 at 9:29 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: sadly, this is only a cosmetic change Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 1:09 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Sunday, July 20, 2003 at 7:18 am Posted by antonumia (1 messages posted) I tried commenting out a few lines in the folder.htt file; it doesn't remove the preview but it sure speeds things up for mpg previews and everything else: look for: if (IsMovieFile(ext)) { lines of code } comment out the lines in between the curly braces, i.e. put // in front of each line. I can't paste the full code in coz of security checks on this post. don't forget to make a backup of folder.htt 1st anton On Saturday, June 14, 2003 at 12:11 am, mm wrote: >I've been having similar troubles but with the media preview with sound files. I've >tried changing my web\folder.htt but any time I make changes to it (any changes, >even an extra space in the indents) I lose the entire left side panel. I was able >to disable movie files through the web\standard.htt file but when I change it for >sounds it doesn't have any effect on them no matter what I've done. I'd be very grateful >for any help about this because this preview occasionally crashes the folder (or >at least I think it's this) and I never use it. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Monday, August 4, 2003 at 10:33 am Posted by Francisco (3 messages posted) I just revisited this site again as this was driving me crazy once again... so I tried this recent listed key and it works as advertized! Thanks for the great post! 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Friday, October 17, 2003 at 8:10 pm Posted by AZ (1 messages posted) 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} Congratulations, you have just disabled the WMP OCX entirely! Doh! If you go to a webpage which contains an embedded WMP OCX, WMP will no longer appear! No, there has to be a better way than this. This is NOT the ultimate solution. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 2:27 pm Posted by Forrest Marvez (2 messages posted) Acutally, WMP still displays on webpages, I use Opera and that may be why, but it still does show up. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Sunday, November 9, 2003 at 6:18 pm Posted by K.Reykdal (1 messages posted) I found that by editing the %SYSTEMDIR%\web\folder.htt you could alter the look of all folders globally. by simply removing these 2 lines: <span id=MediaPlayerSpan> </span> you disable the Media Player Preview in all folders. Images are still previewed. you could put the folder.htt in a local folder to either enable or disable WMP for that folder. System: Windows 2000, SP4+WMP9+Latest Hotfixes PS: As always, work on a BACKUP of your data :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Getting past the 100% CPU bug and delete bad AVI file Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at 12:06 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at 9:44 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How do you stop the Windows Media preview when you click on an MPEG Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 2:27 am Posted by mk (1 messages posted) I just upgraded from 2000 to xp and I like the preview on the left side of the explorer but now its gone. How can I get it back to preview movies and mp3's. I tried View->Explorer Bar->Media, is this the only way? I was hoping there would be a way for the preview to show up in the Details pane where the still image of the movie is shown. I know this is probably the wrong forum but this is the exact opposite problem that I have. mk On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 8:19 am, Francisco wrote: >When ever I am working with MP3's or MPEGs, and I click on just a single file Windows >2000 likes to load it into memory for the media player sitting on the left pane. > While that may be good if I don't want to load the movie manually myself, it is >annoying as you can't resize it anyways... > >Another big annoynce is when you want to MOVE the file, and if it is still in the >media player's memory it won't allow you to move it as it is still "in use". does >anyone know how to disable this "FEATURE"?!? > >Thanks >-Francisco [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum