re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature???
Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 7:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ABS
(1 messages posted)
This tweak can be easily applied using WinGuides Tweak Manager. Download Now!
Windows XP can run slowly when attempting to access a folder that contains a large
number of AVI (Audio Video Interleave) media files. This tweak speeds the process
up by stopping Windows from extracting file information from AVIs.
Open you registry and find the key below.
To disable file information extraction rename the key and place a minus sign infront
of the current name (i.e. "-{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}").
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Registry Settings
System Key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}]
Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you
to reinstall your
THIS CAN BE FOUND AT:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1209/
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!
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