Disable video preview in Explorer

[krige]

Hello everybody!

Does anybody know whether and how it's possible to disable the "video preview" feature in Explorer in a slipstream Windows XP installation disk created using nLite? I usually do that double clicking a reg file after the installation but it would be nice to have it done by default during the installation.

I don't want the automatic preview and thumbnail generation when browsing files list. The preview hide the icon of the files, and doesn’t allow users to instant know the format or extension of the files, such as whether a video is of .avi, .wmv or .mpg format. Beside, the process to show the thumbnail preview may slow down the file listing process when opening folder with video files. Beside, the preview on no codec or corrupted movie or video clip (i.e. no index from a partial download) may cause system problems such as Windows XP stops responding or freezing with 100% CPU utilization, and prevent users from deleting, renaming or moving the file until the file is completely loaded.

[radix]

Does anybody know whether and how it's possible to disable the "video preview" feature in Explorer in a slipstream Windows XP installation disk created using nLite? I usually do that double clicking a reg file after the installation but it would be nice to have it done by default during the installation.

Hi,

Post here the entire content of your .reg file and I will show you what command you can put in unattended section of nLite.

[krige]

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]

@="{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}]

@="Avi Properties Handler"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32]

@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\

00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\

6d,00,65,00,64,00,69,00,61,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

"ThreadingModel"="Both"

[radix]

Add the next commands in unattended section of nLite:

REG.EXE DELETE "HKCR\.avi\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" /f
REG.EXE DELETE "HKCR\.mpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" /f
REG.EXE DELETE "HKCR\.mpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}" /f
REG.EXE DELETE "HKCR\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}" /f

Note: your .reg file contain unused information. Should look like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpeg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}]

[krige]

Thanks a lot!!! Really, very much appreciated