re: ok that worked thanks!
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 3:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Telek
(1 messages posted)
The root problem is that windows XP has a built in system that can scan files when
you highlight them and display information about the file in a pop-up or in additional
columns when in detail view, etc, etc. The particular problem here is that the "Avi
Properties Handler" likes to scan AVI files when you click on them to get information,
and it has to open up the file to do this. Unfortunately this takes some time, and
the handler isn't written very well so it doesn't handle malformed AVI streams very
nicely, causing it to "lock" the file open for a length of time while it tries to
decipher the content. While this file is open you cannot rename or delete. By removing
this registry key you remove the handler, so you won't get popup or additional information
on these files anymore, but it also won't lock it open so that you can delete it
without trouble.
In response to another post, there is no such thing as "registry keys" that indicate
when a file is open or closed... When a program opens a file in shared mode a hold
is put on it which prevents it from being deleted or renamed. If the file is opened
in exclusive read/write mode then no other program can even open it. This is all
stored in memory and isn't committed anywhere.
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 11:11 pm, Consilium wrote:
>The deletion of the registry key worked for me also. Could you possibly explain
what
>I just did? I am a computer technician with a pretty good working knowledge of windows
>but I have no idea what I did.
>
>Thanks...
>
>
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