Recently I downloaded files from my friend’s point and shoot camera. The pix were jpg and the videos were AVI. I can do whatever I want with the pix—no problem. However, if I try to do anything with the videos in Windows Explorer, it will close showing a data execution prevention error screen and sometimes lock up. The mere act of allowing the cursor to hover over the AVI files will cause the problem. However, if I “sneak up” on Explorer and double click on a video file before it has a chance to close, Real Player will play it OK, even though Explorer then closes. The videos will also play OK using Quick Time and Nvidia Forceware without having to go through Explorer. I don’t have any problems with other AVI files. What is wrong with these files and how can I keep them from causing Explorer to crash?
This may be due to a third party program you have installed or possibly one of windows own files, shmedia.dll. To check, open a CMD prompt and issue the following command which will unregegister shmedia.dll : regsvr32 "\windows\system32\shmedia.dll" /u Check for the problem in explorer. (To reverse the unregister, issue the command again without the /u)
It was shmedia.dll. I unregistered it, changed the file types to Mpeg, deleted the AVI's and restored shmedia. Everything is OK now. Thanks for the help. Stu
