This cant be real !! Explorer Nightmare

[Zaida2000]

OK here is my problem.. which Impacts 3 of my computers all running XP..

I have many 700MBs video files on my computers (1.2TB in total across many drives). I often arrange and re-arrange those files and I get the following annoying problems
1- some files I can never delete
2- when I try to delete those troubled files explorer develops memory cancer !! it grows to a size of 100MB of memory and brings the system to its knees
3- even if I just open a folder than contains one of those bad files, explorer does not like that and starts growing like crazy .. I kill it from TaskMgr and the system goes back to normal behavior for a while till explorer decides to explode again and eats up the memory ..

Bottom line, I am suffering big time from explorer, I’ve re-installed windows XP a few times and I always end up with the same Explorer Nightmare !! any thoughts ??

[unknown9]

Are these by any chance off kazaa?

[Zaida2000]

No, i did have that way back, but re-installed after that.. well, but i do have oDC which is a peer-to-peer sharing and winMX on 2 of the computers.. the one that gives me most of the explorer problems is the 3rd one which does not have any p2p software on it..

[unknown9]

some vid's on p2p are .exe's or .zip's and have spyware/virus's along with the movie, or it installs a "video player" with the movie, if you are downloading straight mpg, avi, etc i wouldnt be worried about the files though.

[Zaida2000]

since they all have a .avi or .Mpeg ext to them, how can you tell when they carry an .exe component?

[unknown9]

u gotta watch, sometime they are double extended, such as "coolmovie.mpeg.exe"

[pgriffet]

.Avi files cause problems to Explorer because of the previsualisation bug.
There a lot of Workaround. Try with the integrated Explorer window of your burning program.
or with this old winfile (file manager for 3.1, adapted to XP)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/WINFILE.EXE ( 250 KB)

[Siliconjunkie]

Or change the view to list or anything but thumbnail.

[Zaida2000]

OK !! thought i'd report back as i finally found the cause of this XXX problem..

I have some Divx codec and a file by the name divxdec.ax was called everytime i opened an explorer window that contains media files coded with Divx4 (or other Divx releases), so i renamed this crapy file and the problem did not come back..

I uninstalled the Divx codec / reboot / re-install credible codec and living happily ever after