Stop xp from browsing my movies

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Dag

I have a folder with partially downloaded movies, in divx
quality. Whenever I browse to that folder, explorer
completely stuffs up. The reason for this is that it wants
to check the length and size of each and every movie. How
do I stopp it from doing this?

Because I don't have time to download all the movies in one
go, they are somtimes broken, and that means that xp tries
to read it and fails, and hangs in the proces.

Would be very pleased if I could turn this off

Sincerely
Dag
 
I've seen this question coming up more and more all over the place so
I figured I'd stick it here.

Avi files (divx) can be trouble in xp. there is a fix to let xp behave
much better so it's possible to move or delete large avi files. this
method will also stop xp from scanning length and size of each movie.

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_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to
file property queries on these files.

Just an extra note, if you do a "search" for this key it will not be
found, look for it manually it is very easy to find. As always newbie
or not, if you FUBAR your registry its your own fault. This fix does
work, I use it and have applied it to many XP machines. Now go ahead
and fix this royal pain in the ass!


RiG
 
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