Explorer Crashes

[Guest]

Explorer crashes when trying to create thumbnail icons for graphics files.
I have restored my system after a disk crash. This is a clean installation
of XP Home SP2 on a 250 GB NTFS disk. A number of files and directories have
been copied over from older FAT format disks. When windows explorer lists
the contents of some directories, it starts filling in the graphics icons,
then it seems to choke on one and freeze. Task manager reports that Explorer
is not responding. Ending it creates a new shell. I can't tie the problem
down to a single file or file type. Copying files around seems to change the
behaviour. I've tried deleting thumbs.db but that doesn't help. Has anyone
got a fix for this?

 

[S.Sengupta]

Try this:-
Disable Thumbnail Cache
line:184:left
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but I already tried that one.

Try this:-
Disable Thumbnail Cache
line:184:left
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

Explorer crashes when trying to create thumbnail icons for graphics files.
I have restored my system after a disk crash. This is a clean installation
of XP Home SP2 on a 250 GB NTFS disk. A number of files and directories have
been copied over from older FAT format disks. When windows explorer lists
the contents of some directories, it starts filling in the graphics icons,
then it seems to choke on one and freeze. Task manager reports that Explorer
is not responding. Ending it creates a new shell. I can't tie the problem
down to a single file or file type. Copying files around seems to change the
behaviour. I've tried deleting thumbs.db but that doesn't help. Has anyone
got a fix for this?

 

[Guest]

I'm having a similar problem with AVI files. JPEG files are fine. I isolated
it to AVI by finding a directory which crashed Explorer when I tried to
display thumbnails, then used the command window (cmd.exe in Run) to copy
*.avi to another directory, deleted them & tried Explorer with Thumbnails
again - no problem this time)

 

[Guest]

Hi Roy

I eventually traced my problem to the useless icon-size thumbnail graphics
images which Explorer tries to create in place of the program icon for a Jpeg
file. I solved my problem by uninstalling all my graphics programs and
reinstalling them. After I did this, Explorer went back to just showing the
program icon next to the file name, which I find far more useful. There is
probably a Registry key for this, but I couldn't find it.