Error and System Lock Up When Opening Up Folder With Video Files

[RussianFront1941]

I am having trouble everytime I open one of four different folders that have
several video files in them. The system locks up and says Exploerer needs to
close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered
an error and tries to send an error report. It is just normal Mpegs and WM
files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the results of an error
report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps crashing everytime I try to
view my files. I have folder options set to Video to view thumbnails. Any
help would be appreciated.

Jeff

[dickrichards]

I too am having this problem, as a video editor by trade
this is becoming very frustrating. Sometimes I don't get
the error at all and other times I can't even copy a file
without triggering the explorer re-start. I've had this
issue on 3 different PC's now, none with anything in
common so I'm convinced it is NOT a codec issue or driver
related - but rather something to do with the way that
Windows handles MPEG2 preview in thumbnail view. One
workaround I've found is to change the folders in
question to List view.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am having trouble everytime I open one of four
different folders that have
>several video files in them. The system locks up and
says Exploerer needs to
>close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem
Debugger has encountered
>an error and tries to send an error report. It is just
normal Mpegs and WM
>files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the
results of an error
>report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps
crashing everytime I try to
>view my files. I have folder options set to Video to
view thumbnails. Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
>Jeff
>.
>

[lemon]

"RussianFront1941" wrote:

> I am having trouble everytime I open one of four different folders that have
> several video files in them. The system locks up and says Exploerer needs to
> close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered
> an error and tries to send an error report. It is just normal Mpegs and WM
> files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the results of an error
> report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps crashing everytime I try to
> view my files. I have folder options set to Video to view thumbnails. Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff

ok
im having exactly the same problem here after i installed sp2, before
everything worked nice
ive searched the internet and found some solutions
the only wich gave me results was:
start menu>run>cmd>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
this will uninstall the windows component wich use thumbnails for video
so after u reboot i will no longer view thumbnails for video, but u wont
have this problem anymore, and ur explorer wont crash
if u want to view thumbs again just use the comand regsvr32 shmedia.dll in
the prompt and restart

but i would aprecciate if someone find a definite solution for the problem,
cause i like to se thumbs of my videos, an i think windows should do that
with no errors
thats it
sorry for my english

[sean]

I also have this problem and it SUCKS! I hate Microsoft
more and more each day...I can't even open my movie folders
because every time I do they crash and I can't switch the
view on them because the settings don't save because
explorer.exe crashes.


Please someone provide a logical solution to this problem!

theres got to be other people out there having the same
problem.


>-----Original Message-----
>I too am having this problem, as a video editor by trade
>this is becoming very frustrating. Sometimes I don't get
>the error at all and other times I can't even copy a file
>without triggering the explorer re-start. I've had this
>issue on 3 different PC's now, none with anything in
>common so I'm convinced it is NOT a codec issue or driver
>related - but rather something to do with the way that
>Windows handles MPEG2 preview in thumbnail view. One
>workaround I've found is to change the folders in
>question to List view.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am having trouble everytime I open one of four
>different folders that have
>>several video files in them. The system locks up and
>says Exploerer needs to
>>close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem
>Debugger has encountered
>>an error and tries to send an error report. It is just
>normal Mpegs and WM
>>files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the
>results of an error
>>report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps
>crashing everytime I try to
>>view my files. I have folder options set to Video to
>view thumbnails. Any
>>help would be appreciated.
>>
>>Jeff
>>.
>>
>.
>

[Lester Stiefel]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:19:01 -0700, lemon wrote:

> "RussianFront1941" wrote:
>
>> I am having trouble everytime I open one of four different folders that have
>> several video files in them. The system locks up and says Exploerer needs to
>> close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered
>> an error and tries to send an error report. It is just normal Mpegs and WM
>> files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the results of an error
>> report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps crashing everytime I try to
>> view my files. I have folder options set to Video to view thumbnails. Any
>> help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Jeff
>
> ok
> im having exactly the same problem here after i installed sp2, before
> everything worked nice
> ive searched the internet and found some solutions
> the only wich gave me results was:
> start menu>run>cmd>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
> this will uninstall the windows component wich use thumbnails for video
> so after u reboot i will no longer view thumbnails for video, but u wont
> have this problem anymore, and ur explorer wont crash
> if u want to view thumbs again just use the comand regsvr32 shmedia.dll in
> the prompt and restart
>
> but i would aprecciate if someone find a definite solution for the problem,
> cause i like to se thumbs of my videos, an i think windows should do that
> with no errors
> thats it
> sorry for my english

Disable 'Cache Thumbnails" - There may be a problem in
trying to extract a thumbnail from one or more videos ( you
may not have the codecs to enable the view thumbnails.
Curiously, were any of these files downloaded from either
Usenet or share services. (Many of these appear normal avi
or mpg, but in reality are dvd encoded, divx, or other
codecs)
--
Lester Stiefel
In 2 Timothy 3:1-7, there is a list of the qualities that
Unregenerate man will have in the last days. Is your quality
found there? If So, don't despair - Christ came to save His
people.

[Baldrick]

The following may help, after collecting ideas from vaious boards, I solved
my infuriating crashes......

The prob I had was that whenever accessing either the Files or folder
containing Video or media files explorer chucked it's toys out of the cot.
(Froze and did the microsoft report and Dr Watson etc). Even mousing into the
window caused it to go into a fit!

Tried turning the indexing off for files in the registry and under processes
- No Change.

Tried scanning for spyware - No change

Tried defragging and repairing files - No Change

Even tried splitting folders down to smaller sizes to stop so much being
loaded - No change.

I finally tried the codecs and after months of crashes - it works!!!!!

The codec pack I used was - K-Lite Codec Pack 2.10 Full.

I does not seem to have caused issues with playing, accessing video.

Hope this saves someone the loss of hair I went thru !!!!!!

"Lester Stiefel" wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:19:01 -0700, lemon wrote:
>
> > "RussianFront1941" wrote:
> >
> >> I am having trouble everytime I open one of four different folders that have
> >> several video files in them. The system locks up and says Exploerer needs to
> >> close or it locks up and says Dr. Watson Post Mortem Debugger has encountered
> >> an error and tries to send an error report. It is just normal Mpegs and WM
> >> files. Can anyone help me? How do I get to view the results of an error
> >> report to see what is going on. THis thing keeps crashing everytime I try to
> >> view my files. I have folder options set to Video to view thumbnails. Any
> >> help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >
> > ok
> > im having exactly the same problem here after i installed sp2, before
> > everything worked nice
> > ive searched the internet and found some solutions
> > the only wich gave me results was:
> > start menu>run>cmd>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
> > this will uninstall the windows component wich use thumbnails for video
> > so after u reboot i will no longer view thumbnails for video, but u wont
> > have this problem anymore, and ur explorer wont crash
> > if u want to view thumbs again just use the comand regsvr32 shmedia.dll in
> > the prompt and restart
> >
> > but i would aprecciate if someone find a definite solution for the problem,
> > cause i like to se thumbs of my videos, an i think windows should do that
> > with no errors
> > thats it
> > sorry for my english
>
> Disable 'Cache Thumbnails" - There may be a problem in
> trying to extract a thumbnail from one or more videos ( you
> may not have the codecs to enable the view thumbnails.
> Curiously, were any of these files downloaded from either
> Usenet or share services. (Many of these appear normal avi
> or mpg, but in reality are dvd encoded, divx, or other
> codecs)
> --
> Lester Stiefel
> In 2 Timothy 3:1-7, there is a list of the qualities that
> Unregenerate man will have in the last days. Is your quality
> found there? If So, don't despair - Christ came to save His
> people.
>