re: Explorer.exe crashes
Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 7:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Charles
(1 messages posted)
I had recently put a few hundred mpegs in a folder (I don't have any DivX), but then
I noticed that the hard-drive would grind for about 10 minutes whenever I simply
clicked on the folder to open it.
I tried the method:
"run regedit and find the following key :- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
Delete the "Default" value then close"
but it didn't do anything.
Then I tried the program ShellExView at:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
I tried disabling the "suspicious" stuff that the program showed highlighted in red
(pink, actually), but that still didn't help. So I started looking at the File Extensions
that had anything to do with mpegs. Long story short... the Video Thumbnail Extractor
was the culprit.
WINDOWS\system32\shmedia.dll
{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}
When I disabled it, all of the folders (and some programs) now open instantly!
BTW, this is with Windows XP SP2. Thanks to everyone here that got me pointed in
the right direction. I was going to re-install XP (and the problem) again tomorrow!
On Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 7:08 am, Marty wrote:
>Right click causes an error and crashes Explorer.exe after installing Windows XP
>SP2?
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>When you right-click on a Desktop icon or a folder, the pointer changes to a hourglass,
>Taskbar disappears and after about 30 seconds the screen comes back to normal and
>still no right click options are available. This behavior may be seen after installing
>Windows XP Service Pack 2. However, it's not a problem caused by Service Pack 2,
>but an incompatible Context-menu handler from DivX.
>
>Update 9/8/2004 - DivX software and Windows XP SP2
>
>DivX 5.2.1, DivX Pro 5.2.1, and Dr DivX 1.0.6 have been released. These versions
>are compatible with Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and can be downloaded from www.divx.com.
>Please follow the guidelines below only if you wish to use older versions of these
>products on Windows XP SP2.
>
>RESOLUTION
>(for older versions of DivX software)
>
>Eliminate the context-menu handler from the registry, or disable it temporarily
using
>ShellExView tool.
>
>Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT. Navigate to:
>
>HKCR \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers \ EncodeDivXExt
>
>Backup the key to a REG file, and delete EncodeDivXExt key
>
>Close Registry Editor and restart Windows
>
>Using ShellExView utility
>
>See this page for more information on using ShellExView utility (see Method 2 in
>that page). In ShellExView, the entry might read as EncodeDivXExt Module. More information
>from DivX.com Forums, regarding DivX and the problems with Windows XP Service Pack
>2
>
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