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re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 7:10 am Posted by Wim Peeters (1 messages posted) To Disable CD autoplay, completely, in Windows XP Pro 1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC 2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System. 3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 7:17 am Posted by DarkLord (4 messages posted) Thanks, but i know and i don't want to disable autoplay completely. I want to disable the Feature that Windows ALWAYS scans ANY folder for whatever files there are within... Therefore deactivating the 'new autoplay' feature (for simple data cds, without native autoplay.ini) just would be a part of this process (if windows cannot scan a newly inserted cd, it can not give advices on how to handle those files ;o) ) Anyway, that is NOT my main goal.. i want the scanning completely disabled... if possible :/ (well i think so, because this wasn't there in 2k ;) ) On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 7:10 am, Wim Peeters wrote: > >To Disable CD autoplay, completely, in Windows XP Pro > >1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC > >2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System. > >3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 10:50 am Posted by mikesb (1 messages posted) How do you disable autoplay, completely, in the home version? On Wednesday, November 7, 2001 at 7:10 am, Wim Peeters wrote: > >To Disable CD autoplay, completely, in Windows XP Pro > >1) Click Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC > >2) Go to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System. > >3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off and modify it as you desire. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 1:54 am Posted by Crazy Boozly (10 messages posted) Hai There, I don't know the how to disable the feature but I have a solution. I had the problem with copying .AVI files from my I-Server to my workstation. It just wouldn't work. So Before I copy I renamed the AVI files to something else like .AVS or so. Then I renamed my DivX movies to .DivX to connect it to the player of my choice. DivX is for Windows XP not a multimedia format so it will not check the folder or files constantly. And the latest DivX drivers doesn't support XP yet so there's really no harm done.. Hopefully it can work for you. If you cannot rename in Explorer try to rename in a command-prompt screen. Good luck, Greetz, C.B. 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 8:44 pm Posted by Mike Thompson (2 messages posted) If u have a ftp server running, set up an account with full access rights. then connect with ur ftp-client to 127.0.01 and simply delete the file. works great [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 8:50 pm Posted by Mike Thompson (2 messages posted) 127.0.0.1 of course On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 8:44 pm, Mike Thompson wrote: >If u have a ftp server running, set up an account with full access rights. then connect >with ur ftp-client to 127.0.01 and simply delete the file. works great [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 8:20 am 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 12:32 pm Posted by DarkLord (4 messages posted) Unfortunateley I did NOTZ find a good solution for this... :-( if there WOULD be anyone who could tell me how to cempleteley get rid of this new explorer *feature* I would re-consider using XP again That's right, I 'down'graded to Win2k cause it gives the user WAY better controlles over their OS, and the only real disadvanteg over XP is that 2k takes longer to boot up.. oh well ;) so, if anyone has a sollution I will try... the next reinstall is immanent for my system... so i would try XP once again.... err.. yes ;) On Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 8:20 am, Sven Mellande wrote: > >OOohh please somebody must have solved this! >PLEASE!! > >zilch [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Monday, April 1, 2002 at 10:53 am Posted by Pumpernickel (1 messages posted) Delete unfinished avifiles Unfinished download of avi files (divx) can be a trouble in xp. there is a fix to let xp behave much better so it\'s possible to move or delete large avi files. The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the entire contents of broken AVI files before allowing any access to them is caused by bad behavior of shmedia.dll. To correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32 This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file property queries on these files. It works great. Yours P On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 1:54 am, Crazy Boozly wrote: >Hai There, > >I don't know the how to disable the feature but I have a solution. >I had the problem with copying .AVI files from my I-Server to my workstation. It >just wouldn't work. So Before I copy I renamed the AVI files to something else like >.AVS or so. >Then I renamed my DivX movies to .DivX to connect it to the player of my choice. >DivX is for Windows XP not a multimedia format so it will not check the folder or >files constantly. >And the latest DivX drivers doesn't support XP yet so there's really no harm done.. > >Hopefully it can work for you. If you cannot rename in Explorer try to rename in >a command-prompt screen. > >Good luck, > >Greetz, C.B. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 7:08 am 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 7:17 am Posted by DarkLord (4 messages posted) Thanks for the reply. Haven't followed this subject by myself lately because I have switched 'back' to Windows 2000, since there doesn't seem to be *any* serious reason why one might prefer XP over 2k. But I'll be sure to archive this tip for later use (e.g. once M$ and others (drivers etc) stop support for 2k and if Linux is still not up to it I'd *have* to go for XP so this is very welcome - thanks) On Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 7:08 am, ABS wrote: >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/ > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 6:14 am Posted by john (6 messages posted) I can tell you that I removed the registry key below and it worked. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32 The only thing I can add is that it is difficult to find the key, so be patient looking and double check everything. Once I found the key, I clicked on the +sign next to it to reveal the "InProcServer32" subfolder and deleted that folder only. I left the {87D6294-7...} key there. I would also like to say that I have had this problem since I started using XP about a year ago. I have asked tons of computer people about it and no one knew. I am so relieved to finally have found this fix!!! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disabling ''kind-of-file-detection'' (Vids, Pics, Songs...) Feature??? Monday, May 19, 2003 at 10:30 am Posted by lexios (1 messages posted) Thanks for the great tip!! I have a 600MB+ divx file that cannot move or rename or even delete. Explorer.exe needs to be shut down so I can use console to do whatevere I like with it. I believe it is not a native windows problem. It is a file problem since incomplete and damaged files cause this behavior. The certain file is missing some frames... Thanks again for helping out... 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... 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