shmedia.dll

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Tim Miller

Anytime any program accesses c:\windows\system32
\shmedia.dll it reboots my system. I've tried removing
it from regedit it reboots. I've tried deleting it in
command prompt it reboots, I've tried zipping the file it
reboots, I've tried virus scanning the file and it
reboots, I've tried downloading the rollup pack and it
reboots, I've tried downloading and installing the fix
for this on Microsofts website see MS02-072 or 329390 and
my system reboots! I want this to stop happening.
Running celeron 1.8Ghz, 640mb ram, 40gb HDD w/ 25+Gb
unused!
 
Copied from ABC~All 'bout Computers: "One of the video
bugs in Windows XP is that you may not be able to delete
or move a video avi file. Attempting to do so may result
in an error message stating that the file is in use by
another program and cannot be deleted. This usually
happens with flawed or large avi files. The problem is
that Windows XP reads the entire contents of the file into
memory before even allowing you access to it (i.e. - when
you click to highlight the file or right click to view the
Properties). The bug responsible for this behavior is the
file shmedia.dll which is in your System folder and called
into play by the registry. Thus to fix this problem, all
we need to do is delete the problem key so that
shmedia.dll will no longer be used when you click a video
file.
Click Start>Run, type REGEDIT and click Ok. Then make your
way to this InProcServer32 key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SOFTWARE >Classes > CLSID > {87D62D94-
71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}> InProcServer32

Right click the InProcServer32 key and choose Delete. And
that's all there is to it. This will prevent Windows from
loading shmedia.dll when you work with video files and
thus you should no longer have problems deleting or moving
any video files. Also if you have a video file you can't
delete now, deleting this key will allow you to do so. If
not, log out and log in again to delete the file"

You might try doing this in safe mode, press F5 on boot-up.

Hope this helps...
 
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