Thumbnail Crashing System

From: Tom H (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:43:12 -0700

Ok, thanks anyway!

I decided to try the horrible task of seeing if one of
the files in that directory was the bad boy.

After going through maybe 200 of the 400 files in there,
I finally found the one bad boy that caused the
problems. Seems the file was bad. Now that poses a new
question. I have had bad video files in the past. I work
with them all day long. Most of them I'm putting into
the system from a video camera for commercials and spots
and stuff like that. But in the past, they just would
not product a thumbnail. Now why was this one single
file able to take down explorer each and every
time?!?!?! Is this a case of "Now that it aint broke,
don't try to fix it?" Windows never stops to amaze me
anymore.

Will the questions never stop?!?!? Hee Hee!

Thanks for the help
Take Care, Tom! :)

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I seem to be having a bit of a problem.
>
>I have some video clips in a folder. When I open that
>folder, it starts to give you the little preview
>thumbnails of each of the clips, and then it eventually
>crashes explorer. (not Internet explorer) Of course it
>resets itself and comes back (minus some of the icons in
>the lower right corner of the screen.
>
>Now I can't figure out for the life of my why this has
>started. I don't have any other programs installed that
>mess with settings like this, or programs that want to
>take control of the thumbnail process.
>
>Now, of course, if I change that folders setting to
Icons
>or anything but thumbnails, it never crashes. Is there
>some setting in Windows somewhere that I could look at
or
>maybe increase the size of or something?
>
>This one just baffles me.
>
>I'm using WindowsXP Pro SP1
>P4 2.8Ghz
>1024gb DDR
>390GB Disk Space with over 200 still empty
>ATI AIW Radeon (With latest drivers)
>SB Audigy 2 (With latest drivers)
>Pioneer DVD (Latest Firmware)
>Plextor 40/12/40 CD-RW (Latest Firmware)
>Plextor DVD-RW PX-708A (Latest Firmware)
>Zip100 (IDE)
>
>I think thats all that should be relevent for specs of
>the machine if you needed to know.
>
>Thanks for the help in advanced!
>
>Take Care, Tom.
>
>.
>

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