re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 8:20 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sven Mellande (1 messages posted) OOohh please somebody must have solved this! PLEASE!! zilch On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 6:47 am, DarkLord wrote: >Explanation: >WinXP analyses a folder's content on opening through explorer.exe .... > this is where you get those 'common tasks' (the former web-view) from > (i'm sorry, if those names are wrong, but im currently on a german XP >built, so i don't know their english names for sure).. windows detects >if there are mainly pictures, videos, musicfiles, or whatever in the >current folder... so there often occurs a problem with DivX-files: you >can't delete them becauses explorer.exe tries to detect, what they >actually are... now, this DivX file may be say damaged or simply yet >incomplete ... so win can't finalize its analyse (bad handling of >incomplete divx content) ... and 'hangs' with 100percent CPU usage... >and the inability to delete the file. >Conclusion: >DISABLE this 'feature' (detecting which kind of files a folder >holds).. so you gain the additional benefit of not getting those new >autoplay functions for cds without autoplay. >Problem: >i have absolutely no clue how to disable this feature or if it is >possible at all... if ANYBODY knows how you could do that... PLEASE >post! Written in response to: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 6:47 am) Responses to this message: re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:32 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Wed, Nov 7, 2001, 6:47 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Wim Peeters: Wed, Nov 7, 2001, 7:10 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Wed, Nov 7, 2001, 7:17 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (mikesb: Wed, Nov 7, 2001, 10:50 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Crazy Boozly: Sat, Nov 10, 2001, 1:54 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Mike Thompson: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 8:44 pm) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Mike Thompson: Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 8:50 pm) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Pumpernickel: Mon, Apr 1, 2002, 10:53 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (Sven Mellande: Sun, Mar 24, 2002, 8:20 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Sun, Mar 24, 2002, 12:32 pm) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (ABS: Sat, Dec 28, 2002, 7:08 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (DarkLord: Sat, Dec 28, 2002, 7:17 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (john: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 6:14 am) re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? (lexios: Mon, May 19, 2003, 10:30 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 XP Discussion Forum