Active Movie crashes explorer.exe following WinXP service pack 2 upgrade.

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Cardman

Following the WinXP service pack 2 upgrade then I now get the
following error...

ActiveMovie Window: explorer.exe

The instruction at "0x0389f9ff" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The
memory could not be "written".

Explorer then proceeds to restart.

This happens whenever I click on a video file or when the system tries
creating Thumbnails of video files. During this Service Pack 2 upgrade
I also installed Media Player 10, where even installing this
application a second time does not solve this problem.

Active Movie crashing Explorer, during the handling of a system task,
sounds like a serious Microsoft bug to me. And this system is not even
kind enough to pop up the usual "report the problem to Microsoft"
option.

The big question is how do I fix this problem? Beyond uninstalling
Service Pack 2 that is, when apart from this problem then this seems
like a better system.

A full fix would be nice, but I would even consider turning off Active
Movie for now. If only I knew how that is...

Thanks,

Cardman.
 
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active movie crashes

Cardman,

your problem can be immediately fixed by uninstalling the active movie dll
regsrv32 /u shmedia.dll

However it is most likely caused by a problem with too many (conflicting?) codecs installed.
Try removing all your codecs and only adding the ones you need.

more information is here...
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/3379p2.html

Cheers

Lachlan
 
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misspelled regsrv

I tried this solution, and it didn't work, but after searching for more information I realized that the word "regsrv32" is misspelled. It should be "regsvr32". I made that correction, and ActiveMovie disappeared.
.........Al
 

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