EXPLORER.EXE crashes with a "memory access violation" error

[Guest]

Suddenly EXPLORER.EXE crashes when I either:
* Displays a folder where it shows any property of an AVI-file
* Selects an AVI-file in a folder

It doesn't crash when it isn't required to list any property of the files in
a folder, like Dimension. Any other file type is OK.
Furthermore, I can no longer open any AVI-file in applications without them
crashing as well.

Does anyone recognize this? I would guess a repository property is corrupt,
but which?

Thanks!
MAts-Ove

 

[Guest]

A friend told me it was a wellknwon problem with Windows XP when a AVI-file
get "locked" by a crashed video application.

Create a .inf file and add the follwong lines to it. The right-click the
file and choose Install.
-->
; Windows XP explorer movie fix.
;
; WARNING - Use this file at your own risk.
;
; Executing this file will remove a registry key which makes explorer load
shmedia.dll.
; Simply put, this removes the annoying "permission denied" errors when
trying to
; move/copy/delete AVI files.
;
; To use this fix, right-click on the file and select install. Done.


[version]
signature="$Windows NT$"

[DefaultInstall]
DelReg = Reduce.Reg

[Reduce.Reg]
HKLM,
"SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32"
<--

/Mats-Ove