OzzieBloke
August 27th 04, 02:43 AM
Having installed SP2, the following bug has arisen on my system:
On a fresh boot, if one lingers the mouse over a file of extension *.avi in
any open folder, the system hangs/freezes. CTRL+ALT+DEL required to kill the
folder process, explorer shell refreshes, and the system runs again.
HOWEVER, is the file extension is *.AVI (as in capitalized), there is no
system freeze or hang. If the file extension is anything other than *.avi,
there is no freeze. Turning off the pop-up file info solves that glitch, but
right clicking an *.avi file and bringing up file properties also makes the
computer freeze.
If I turn off caching of thumbnails in folders, force a shift of view from
"detailed" to "thumbnail" view, and load all the thumbnails afresh, then
shift back to "detailed" view as I keep my folders, hovering over the .avi
file no longer causes a freeze, though the file details take longer to appear
than for other file types.
The ONLY system difference before this glitch appearing was the installation
of SP2.
Using WinXP Professional, which previously had SP1 installed with no major
bugs excepting the occasional USB trackball no-response issue that required
unplugging and replugging the device to reactivate it.
Intel D845PEBT2 Motherboard
1 gigabyte DDR SDRAM (Kingston)
2x 60 Gig Western Digital JB series harddrives
On a fresh boot, if one lingers the mouse over a file of extension *.avi in
any open folder, the system hangs/freezes. CTRL+ALT+DEL required to kill the
folder process, explorer shell refreshes, and the system runs again.
HOWEVER, is the file extension is *.AVI (as in capitalized), there is no
system freeze or hang. If the file extension is anything other than *.avi,
there is no freeze. Turning off the pop-up file info solves that glitch, but
right clicking an *.avi file and bringing up file properties also makes the
computer freeze.
If I turn off caching of thumbnails in folders, force a shift of view from
"detailed" to "thumbnail" view, and load all the thumbnails afresh, then
shift back to "detailed" view as I keep my folders, hovering over the .avi
file no longer causes a freeze, though the file details take longer to appear
than for other file types.
The ONLY system difference before this glitch appearing was the installation
of SP2.
Using WinXP Professional, which previously had SP1 installed with no major
bugs excepting the occasional USB trackball no-response issue that required
unplugging and replugging the device to reactivate it.
Intel D845PEBT2 Motherboard
1 gigabyte DDR SDRAM (Kingston)
2x 60 Gig Western Digital JB series harddrives