Disable .mpg thumbnail rendering?

[Paul Speller]

(Sorry to anyone on microsoft.public.windowsxp.video who'll now get this
twice - I figured, after posting there, that this might be a Windows
Explorer issue more than a video issue so it should probably go here
instead.)

Is there any way I can turn off Windows Explorer's ability to create
thumbnails for a particular file extension - namely .mpg?

A particular piece of software I have saves MPEG2 Transport Stream
files, which Windows can't natively play, and in fact they tend to crash
Windows Media Player (and most other things that try to play them).
That's fine, I don't use anything to play them in except their native
software.

What's annoying is that the process of attempting to create a thumbnail
of these files also crashes Windows Explorer. Of course, I can turn off
Thumbnails views for folders with these files in - that's easy.

What I can't easily do (without completely disabling web view in folders
which I certainly don't want to do!) is disable the preview thumbnail in
the left-hand web pane thing in Explorer. Even when I click the upwards
chevron thing to close the Details part of the pane, it still seems to
be rendering it somewhere in the background, because every time I select
an MPG it crashes Explorer after a few seconds.

This is very annoying because I lose my taskbar and my system tray icons
never all come back, etc etc.

So, please, is there some registry setting or text file somewhere that
specifies which file extensions Explorer can make thumbnails for, so I
can get rid of .mpg from it?

Thanks

 

[Ramesh [MS-MVP]]

To disable the preview for .mpg file, try this:

Open Registry Editor (click Start | Run | regedit.exe)
Goto this location:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx
Delete "ShellEx" entry.

for .mpeg files, goto "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpeg\ShellEx"

NOTE: Always backup the registry before editing.

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Regards,
Ramesh [MS-MVP]
Aim: SRamesh2k
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(Sorry to anyone on microsoft.public.windowsxp.video who'll now get this
twice - I figured, after posting there, that this might be a Windows
Explorer issue more than a video issue so it should probably go here
instead.)

Is there any way I can turn off Windows Explorer's ability to create
thumbnails for a particular file extension - namely .mpg?

A particular piece of software I have saves MPEG2 Transport Stream
files, which Windows can't natively play, and in fact they tend to crash
Windows Media Player (and most other things that try to play them).
That's fine, I don't use anything to play them in except their native
software.

What's annoying is that the process of attempting to create a thumbnail
of these files also crashes Windows Explorer. Of course, I can turn off
Thumbnails views for folders with these files in - that's easy.

What I can't easily do (without completely disabling web view in folders
which I certainly don't want to do!) is disable the preview thumbnail in
the left-hand web pane thing in Explorer. Even when I click the upwards
chevron thing to close the Details part of the pane, it still seems to
be rendering it somewhere in the background, because every time I select
an MPG it crashes Explorer after a few seconds.

This is very annoying because I lose my taskbar and my system tray icons
never all come back, etc etc.

So, please, is there some registry setting or text file somewhere that
specifies which file extensions Explorer can make thumbnails for, so I
can get rid of .mpg from it?

Thanks

 

[Paul Speller]

To disable the preview for .mpg file, try this:

Open Registry Editor (click Start | Run | regedit.exe)
Goto this location:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx
Delete "ShellEx" entry.

Wonderful! That's worked perfectly - no more crashes. Thank you very
much

Paul

 

[Ramesh [MS-MVP]]

You're welcome, Paul.

--
Regards,

Ramesh (MS-MVP)
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

~ Please reply to newsgroup ~

To disable the preview for .mpg file, try this:

Open Registry Editor (click Start | Run | regedit.exe)
Goto this location:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx
Delete "ShellEx" entry.

Wonderful! That's worked perfectly - no more crashes. Thank you very
much

Paul