How to Delete an AVI from the Recycle Bin

[Harland Moore]

XP has a bug where Explorer tries to read the entire contents of an
AVI before allowing any access to them (i.e. move/delete/restore).

If it's in the Recycle Bin, you might start pulling your hair out.

To spare your hairs, you must prevent Explorer from loading
shmedia.dll

To do this:
Start Menu >> Run >> regedit

First, back up your registry to some easy to find place on your hard
drive.

Then navigate to the appropriate registry key like so:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Classes
CLSID
{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}
InProcServer32

Delete this key.

Now your AVI file should be movable, deletable and restorable.

 

[Kelly]

Or run this script:

Remove AVI Search - File in use Error Message (Line 74)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm