100% CPU utilization when I click on media files

[justifus]

XP-Pro, Pentium 2.0, 256 MB, McAfee online Virus Scanner.

When I click on certain media files .avi files (~150MB
size), cpu spikes to 100% utilization. In the task bar I
notice that explorer.exe is the culprit. I have to kill
the explorer.exe to regain control.

Did disk fragmentation recently. Scanned my entire system
for virus activities.

Please help to identify the problem and fixing it.

Thanks,
Justifus

 

[Rich Barry]

Take a look here http://tinyurl.com/t1jb

 

[Tim H.]

XP-Pro, Pentium 2.0, 256 MB, McAfee online Virus Scanner.

When I click on certain media files .avi files (~150MB
size), cpu spikes to 100% utilization. In the task bar I
notice that explorer.exe is the culprit. I have to kill
the explorer.exe to regain control.

This is an interesting one. I, too, experience the same thing. It's a fairly
easy fix!

There's a DLL, shmedia.dll that Explorer uses to extract information from an
AVI file. Whenever you click on an AVI file, it scans it and extracts info.
However, if these are large AVI files, CPU usage spikes to 100% and hovers
there for a few. Rather annoying if you ask me.

What I've done is unregister that DLL and that fixes it. You can do it like
so:

1. Start, Run, then type: regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll and click OK


However, I'm not sure about the full ramifications in doing that. It does
take away the preview function of AVI files, but I'm not sure what else.

-Tim

 

[Tim H.]

Looks some others beat me to it and have a more friendly approach to it:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/archive/topic/74137.html