doug
January 10th 04, 11:57 AM
I have this same issue..I have lots of large MPEGS that
continually hang Explorer.. There must be a fix simular to
the AVI...
Any Ideas
>-----Original Message-----
>Is there any way I can turn off Windows Explorer's
ability to create
>thumbnails for a particular file extension - namely .mpg?
>
>A particular piece of software I have saves MPEG2
Transport Stream
>files, which Windows can't natively play, and in fact
they tend to crash
>Windows Media Player (and most other things) that try to
play them.
>That's fine, I don't use anything to play them in except
their native
>software.
>
>What's annoying is that the process of attempting to
create a thumbnail
>of these files also crashes Windows Explorer. Of course,
I can turn off
>Thumbnails views for folders with these files in - that's
easy.
>
>What I can't easily do (without completely disabling web
view in folders
>which I certainly don't want to do!) is disable the
preview thumbnail in
>the left-hand web pane thing in Explorer. Even when I
click the upwards
>chevron thing to close the Details part of the pane, it
still seems to
>be rendering it somewhere in the background, because
every time I select
>an MPG it crashes Explorer after a few seconds.
>
>This is very annoying because I lose my taskbar and my
system tray icons
>never all come back, etc etc.
>
>So, please, is there some registry setting or text file
somewhere that
>specifies which file extensions Explorer can make
thumbnails for, so I
>can get rid of .mpg from it?
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Paul Speller
>UK
>.
>
continually hang Explorer.. There must be a fix simular to
the AVI...
Any Ideas
>-----Original Message-----
>Is there any way I can turn off Windows Explorer's
ability to create
>thumbnails for a particular file extension - namely .mpg?
>
>A particular piece of software I have saves MPEG2
Transport Stream
>files, which Windows can't natively play, and in fact
they tend to crash
>Windows Media Player (and most other things) that try to
play them.
>That's fine, I don't use anything to play them in except
their native
>software.
>
>What's annoying is that the process of attempting to
create a thumbnail
>of these files also crashes Windows Explorer. Of course,
I can turn off
>Thumbnails views for folders with these files in - that's
easy.
>
>What I can't easily do (without completely disabling web
view in folders
>which I certainly don't want to do!) is disable the
preview thumbnail in
>the left-hand web pane thing in Explorer. Even when I
click the upwards
>chevron thing to close the Details part of the pane, it
still seems to
>be rendering it somewhere in the background, because
every time I select
>an MPG it crashes Explorer after a few seconds.
>
>This is very annoying because I lose my taskbar and my
system tray icons
>never all come back, etc etc.
>
>So, please, is there some registry setting or text file
somewhere that
>specifies which file extensions Explorer can make
thumbnails for, so I
>can get rid of .mpg from it?
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Paul Speller
>UK
>.
>