Dragging a video file causes explorer.exe error

[Jay]

This is really a weird one to say the least ...

WinXP home:

Open a network drive in "My Network Places", browse to any .avi file on
the remote drive. Click-Hold-drag within the same window and explorer
error pops up in module "xvid.ax" ... What does THAT have to do with
just "dragging" the file??? Not attempting to "open/play" it just drag
it from the network drive to the XP desktop. Any OTHER file drags/drops
just fine.

Thought I've seen every error in the book till this one ..

Thanks, Jay

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&Product=winxp

Csrss.exe uses 100% of the CPU When you Right-Click an item in Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555021&Product=winxp

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| This is really a weird one to say the least ...
|
| WinXP home:
|
| Open a network drive in "My Network Places", browse to any .avi file on
| the remote drive. Click-Hold-drag within the same window and explorer
| error pops up in module "xvid.ax" ... What does THAT have to do with
| just "dragging" the file??? Not attempting to "open/play" it just drag
| it from the network drive to the XP desktop. Any OTHER file drags/drops
| just fine.
|
| Thought I've seen every error in the book till this one ..
|
| Thanks, Jay

 

[Jay]

On 12.07.04 16:22, Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

--- Original Message ---

Windows Stops Responding When You Click a Large AVI File in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822430&Product=winxp

Csrss.exe uses 100% of the CPU When you Right-Click an item in Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555021&Product=winxp

Almost but not quite ...

I can click on any AVI file ON the XP desktop and open, move, copy or
whatever, no problem. It's only in the remote drive window that clicking
on the AVI file to drag/drop to the XP desktop that this occurs.

At any rate, the workaround is to rename the AVI to TXT and then perform
the operation to copy over the network to the XP desktop ..

Jay

 

[Alex Nichol]

Open a network drive in "My Network Places", browse to any .avi file on
the remote drive. Click-Hold-drag within the same window and explorer
error pops up in module "xvid.ax" ... What does THAT have to do with
just "dragging" the file?

Explorer has problems with some avi files, especially those using the
popular DivX codec that came out after XP did. When you touch one, it
looks inside to see any additional info (like resolution, frame rate)
and with these files gets into errors.

It is probably as well to switch off this looking for that info for avi
files: Start - Run - Regedit.exe
Open the left pane, explorer style to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

Highlight it and first use File - Export so you could restore easily,
then delete it