re: FINALLY AN ANSWER: explorer.exe crashes when folder with avi files is opened
Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 1:00 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Doc
(1 messages posted)
I ran into similar problems that I managed to track down to 2 AVI files by moving
each AVI file to a temp directoy and trying to view the directory with explorer each
time until it crashed thus identifying the bad file. Simply renaming the file at
the command prompt solves the problem. It's strange that it only occurs to specific
AVI files and not all and I was not able to trace it down to any specific VISIBLE
character in the filename. I wonder if it's possible if a non-displayable character
might be attached to the filename or if the filename might be overloaded causing
a corruption on memory (simillar to worms attempt to overload a memory buffer to
allow access to a system) and that renaming it deletes the problem characters?
On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 4:17 pm, Chad Williams wrote:
>I have a problem with WE when I try to access any of my .AVI files I can't do anything
>without a crash, I tried to delete the registry key like you said but it won't let
>me, am I doing anything wrong?
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