Media Deletion Problem

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Garry

Every time I try and delete a media file, whether it be an AVI, MPG, etc,
it looks as if it is deleted, but the icon for it does not disappear.
After trying to double click the icon, Media Player will start, but not be
able to play anything. If I use the task manager to force Explorer.exe to
quit, and restart Explorer.exe manually from the run task portion, the
files will not be found again. It's an annoying problem.

Any ideas?


Here is my rig:
P4-3.2
2GB PC400 Dual Channel
2x 200GB Maxtor RAID-0
Panasonic DVDRW
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO Retail
400W Enermax PSU
Windows XP Pro SP2 w/latest updates

Please post follow-up in newsgroup,
TIA,
Garry
 
Interesting problem. Have you tried changing the explorer views to list? Do
you have thumbnails enabled? Try pressing F5 to force a refresh immediately
after deleting a media file, though this might not work because you said that
it was necessary to reinitialize explorer.exe.

Of course, this is probably due to a shell enhancement from a toolbar,
program, or spyware.
 
I'm usually pretty careful about shell enhancements and spyware. Have both
Spybot and MS AntiSpyware installed and updated on a routine basis,
scanning nightly. F5 does nothing, as I stated before, and a funny
observation I had today was that it doesn't do it on removable devices such
as my USB HDD. Bad HDD catalog on that drive?
 
A bad file system or catalog would give worse problems than that. Try
managing any add-ons for Internet Explorer, since helper objects usually
breach into the file explorer too. Manage it by going to Internet Options
under Tools and selecting the Programs tab. Are the deleted files indicated
as having 0Kb in size?
 
I managed to remove a few of the entries that I didn't recognize, and that
were only used one or twice, or never. Does this require a reboot in order
for changes to take full effect?

The deleted media files (AVI, MPG, etc) show the full file size. But when
you try to launch them, it gives you the standard "Window Media Play
Error" that you might see if you didn't have the right codec installed.
 
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