Windows Explorer Keeps Hanging Up - Requiring a Kill

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I'll do my best to explain - any help is very much appreciated:

One day I stretched WinExplorer to its limit and after two complete wipe and
re-installs, the same problem occurs. I was going thru and opening up about
10-15 folders from within the same master folder. All of the folders are now
open. Then a folder would get stuck "searching for items", with no items
being visible. I then have to force quit the folder, which restarts
WinExplorer. Restarts of the computer fix nothing. I am in the computer
industry and consider myself fairly knowledgeable. I have all of the latest
updates for everything and the entire system is clean from everything bad.
The problem has to be the OS, right? Then how can 2 complete wipe/reinstalls
not fix it? A memory scan (microsoft program) found no memory issues. Could
something from the motherboard be corrupted? A bios reset would fix nothing -
correct? The problem never used to be there and there were no recent program
changes or installations. The disk is error-free.

After the WinExplorer restart, the problem goes away until I go thru a few
folders and subfolders (any folder) looking for something. Somehow it gets
confused and hung up trying to keeping track of everything. I also lose many
of the taskbar items, although the tasks that were there are still running.

Thanks for any help ahead of time - I really appreciate it.
 
Found the solution myself - at least I hope. It now works lightning speed,
with no hang-ups. Some file, probably a corrupt AVI file, is hanging
WinExplorer when it is set to automatically load the thumbnail in the details
area on the left of a folder - even if the right side is in non-thumbnail
view:
Windows Explorer in XP can be set to show thumbnails >of pictures and movies.

It’s a useful feature, but kind of unstable.
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Sometimes it doesn’t work and certain movie files can >crash Windows Explorer when
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it tries to load their >thumbnails.

To fix this, use this at a command prompt:
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1) Open a command window (Start->Run, type in 'cmd' hit enter)
2) To remove image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll
3) To readd image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
5) To readd media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shmedia.dll
 
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