Vista - Windows Explorer Crashes when entering Video Folder

Is anyone experienced the above problem....
I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder, whenever
I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or via
windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to thumbnail
the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions

You might want to bug this )
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport

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"Daniel Halawi" <Daniel Halawi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is anyone experienced the above problem....
> I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder,
> whenever
> I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or
> via
> windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to
> thumbnail
> the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions

Daniel Halawi wrote:
> Is anyone experienced the above problem....
> I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder, whenever
> I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or via
> windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to thumbnail
> the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions

Sounds like a variant of the disk-thrashing problem that occurs on many
earlier versions of Windows when many large video files are in a single
folder. The work-around for that is to disable a number of the
file-handlers so that they can't do thumbnail extraction. I don't recall
the exact procedure, but a careful web-search on the symptoms should
turn it up.

I've only got 6 videos in my folder. Explorer shows the thumbnails OK but
crashes ALWAYS immediately after that. Umpteen reports have gone off, but
I've had nothing back yet. Basically I have to use good old DOS commands on
that folder.

I couldn't get to the vistabase site listed.

Colin

"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

> You might want to bug this )
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport
>
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> "Daniel Halawi" <Daniel Halawi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:074425D1-3CA0-4FC2-8193-9EC8D79F764C@microsoft.com...
> > Is anyone experienced the above problem....
> > I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder,
> > whenever
> > I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or
> > via
> > windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to
> > thumbnail
> > the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions
>
>
>

yes it does the same to me
"Spirefm" <Spirefm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news8C624B0-7371-453D-BC78-7C1AD4BF01FC@microsoft.com...
> I've only got 6 videos in my folder. Explorer shows the thumbnails OK but
> crashes ALWAYS immediately after that. Umpteen reports have gone off, but
> I've had nothing back yet. Basically I have to use good old DOS commands
> on
> that folder.
>
> I couldn't get to the vistabase site listed.
>
> Colin
>
> "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>
>> You might want to bug this )
>> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?bugreport
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
>> that up!
>>
>> --: Original message follows :--
>> "Daniel Halawi" <Daniel Halawi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:074425D1-3CA0-4FC2-8193-9EC8D79F764C@microsoft.com...
>> > Is anyone experienced the above problem....
>> > I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder,
>> > whenever
>> > I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer,
>> > or
>> > via
>> > windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to
>> > thumbnail
>> > the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions
>>
>>
>>

I am having the exact some problem. Quite annoying!!

"Daniel Halawi" wrote:

> Is anyone experienced the above problem....
> I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder, whenever
> I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or via
> windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to thumbnail
> the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions

Try disabling DEP. Open command prompt as ADMIN and type:

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

reboot and see if it helps.

Had the same problem, as you say seems like a problem loading
thumbnails, found a workaround for XP users:

Open My Documents > view (select anything but thumbnails)

Click Tools > Folder options > View Tab > click Apply to all folders >
click yes

My videos will now open without crashing, changing the view of my
videos back to thumbnails causes the problem to reoccur.


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