Disable movie thumbnails

[I_Broke_My_MHZ]

Is there a way to disable thumbnail view showing movies? It's causing a problem where the movie file cannot be renamed/deleted because it is in use by another process.

[Sonic]

It is not thumbnail cause ...

Just disable bug'd property handle

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler]

[GrofLuigi]

It is not thumbnail cause ...

Just disable bug'd property handle

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler]

Another alternative:

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

GL

[Tarun]

Or a much safer method:

regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\shmedia.dll

[bledd]

Or a much safer method:

regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\shmedia.dll

yup

speeds up media browsing loads!

and to undo it, you do the same, but remove the /u part

[Takeshi]

Or a much safer method:

regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\shmedia.dll

Please explain in what way is this much safer? Just wondering...

[EchoNoise]

Uh... its safer because your not going through the registry, you never know you might make a mistake!

The way that Tarun did it is safer because your unloading a system library that shows movie thumbnails (and more?) but you still have the file on your system (unless you remove it once its unregistered) so you can put it back on

[Takeshi]

Thanks, but Sonic said thumbnail is not to blame. So you're saying it is thumbnail afterall?

[Mangix]

exactly. just use Tarun's method and the thumbnail won't appear there anymore.

[Sonic]

Using regedit method, you keep thumbnail and fix problems with move/rename media ...