Ok.

I often have incomplete video files (like when downloading using torrent), or otherwise files that might not work with whatever windows tries to preview them with (probably WMP).

What happens is that Windows tries to display a preview as woon as I open the folder, and the whole explorer process just freezes over, takes up all cpu usage, and I have to manually kill the process to get anything to work at all. This makes it rather more difficult to access a folder which has some incomplete content in it (eg. my torrents download folder), since each time I enter it with windows explorer, the same thing would happen... and lately, is really annoying me. And I really dislike the though of having to write some script to do it every time I want to move something in/out.

It even screws up with videos that are perfectly correct some times.

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So is this just a singular case (ie. My windows explorer is screwed) or happens not only to me.

If the 1st, what is wrong. If the second, how do I disable preview. (It's not like I really need to have a picture of the 1st frame of each AVI file, most the time it's just a black box anyways.)

Thanks

(This post was last modified: 14/03/2008 05:24 AM by Assassinator.)

your going to have to execute this swiftly before it locks up on you.

Right Click > View > List or Tiles

Senseito Sakura Wrote:your going to have to execute this swiftly before it locks up on you.

Right Click > View > List or Tiles

But hat's just a temporary solution. The next time I enter, it's going screw over again.

Especially if the folder in question is something I open quite often.

And most likely I'm not fast enough. A 3ghz cpu is pretty damn fast.

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Thanks anyway.

that's not normal - every time I do that its permanent - otherwise it sounds your Codecs are poo poo - 3GHz should handle that fine.

Are you using CCCP or K-Lite Mega Codec Pack?

(This post was last modified: 14/03/2008 05:07 AM by S7*.)

Senseito Sakura Wrote:that's not normal - every time I do that its permanent - otherwise it sounds your Codecs are poo poo - 3GHz should handle that fine.

Yeah, it's just that everythime I try to do that, It also screws over, so I have to end the process, and thus the settings aren't saved. So it's back to before.

And that's still a temporary solution. Because that would mean I would have to do it for each folder that that happens in. (Even some files that aren't incomplete/corrupt and are perfectly fine also screws up explorer. Werid.)

About 3ghz, I wasn't refering to how it can't handle it. I was refering to the fact that I can't hope to beat it in a race of whether I can change display settings faster, or it will try to do a preview faster. It will be faster.

Senseito Sakura Wrote:Are you using CCCP or K-Lite Mega Codec Pack?

Storm codec pack. (Maybe I'll swap to K-Lite. CCCP doesn't have enough codecs in it.)

The codec pack should be fine.

I think it's because of the nature of bit torrent downloads, that it does peices randomly. And then preview tries to open a file that pretty much has no header, or anything, only a few scattered peices in it, and fails.

But it screws up on some good files as well... weird (it plays all fine when I actually play it... just screws up on preview)

(This post was last modified: 14/03/2008 05:22 AM by Assassinator.)

I disable Windows from auto-selecting the display mode (so it's always list).

However I faced the problem that it would ignore the setting if opening a file from a program (the common dialog box).

I think there was a registry thing you can edit to get rid of it - I basically fiddle around with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.avi and see if there's some shell handlers that can be deleted.
If there's something that looks like "{FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516}" in there, just follow to the key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

(This post was last modified: 14/03/2008 05:28 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

swap to k-lite codec pack (the full version)
and preview the video in the included media player classic(custom version)

i used it to play files which havnt fully downloaded in like 12 parts of the file  all the video does is stop playing and then you just click further up on the slider and it will play the other sections

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I disable Windows from auto-selecting the display mode (so it's always list).

However I faced the problem that it would ignore the setting if opening a file from a program (the common dialog box).

I think there was a registry thing you can edit to get rid of it - I basically fiddle around with HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.avi and see if there's some shell handlers that can be deleted.
If there's something that looks like "{FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516}" in there, just follow to the key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.

Ok.

I will try that later.

squee666 Wrote:swap to k-lite codec pack (the full version)
and preview the video in the included media player classic(custom version)

i used it to play files which havnt fully downloaded in like 12 parts of the file  all the video does is stop playing and then you just click further up on the slider and it will play the other sections

It's not running the video that's the problem.

It's that windows tries to load a "preview" each time I open the folder, and that screws explorer up.

It's really nothing to do with the codec packs I think. All these codec packs basically use the same codecs. So what's works using K-Lite, CCCP, Cole, whatever codec pack should work all the same using Storm.

J_G_ Wrote:couldnt you delete them they are imcomplete anyway , you could use CMD if you can't get to them

I don't exactly want to delete all the stuff that I'm trying to download...

And there is no time to delete even if I want. As soon as i load the window, it fails.


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Thanks for help guys

(This post was last modified: 14/03/2008 05:35 AM by Assassinator.)

actually your wrong each codec pack is different

and also storm codec pack is an addon for wmp and advises you to use the latest wmp

while k-lite codec pack is just a full on codec pack which isn't an addon and comes with media player classic  but the codec works on all media players.

so the issue more than likely is with your codec pack or media player
because as i remember windows media player 9 and above hates to play incomplete files