Windows Explorer Crashes when entering Video Folder

External Since: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 1

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

External Since: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 29

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.