Windows Explorer Crashes when entering Video Folder

Is anyone experienced the above problem....
I have large amounts of different format videos in my video folder, whenever
I try to go into the folder, no matter which way, either via explorer, or via
windows media, I always get a crash, windows seems to be tryin to thumbnail
the videos but fails and crashes, any suggestions

Sounds like a variant of the disk-thrashing problem that occurs on many
earlier versions of Windows when many large video files are in a single
folder. The work-around for that is to disable a number of the
file-handlers so that they can't do thumbnail extraction. I don't recall
the exact procedure, but a careful web-search on the symptoms should
turn it up.

I've only got 6 videos in my folder. Explorer shows the thumbnails OK but
crashes ALWAYS immediately after that. Umpteen reports have gone off, but
I've had nothing back yet. Basically I have to use good old DOS commands on
that folder.

I couldn't get to the vistabase site listed.

yes it does the same to me

I am having the exact some problem.

Try disabling DEP. Open command prompt as ADMIN and type:

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

reboot and see if it helps.

File DEP under unintended consequences. Oops, getting ahead of myself.
I'll wager a lot don't know what DEP is. If you have some unexplained
Window issues like Windows Explorer crashing or similar such things
take a few minutes to get up to speed on Data Execution Prevention or
DEP,

[Rusga]

Had the same problem, as you say seems like a problem loading thumbnails, found a workaround for XP users:

Open My Documents > view (select anything but thumbnails)

Click Tools > Folder options > View Tab > click Apply to all folders > click yes

My videos will now open without crashing, changing the view of my videos back to thumbnails causes the problem to reoccur.

[kris_rocks!]

Thanks, I had same issue. fixed by changing the view. The below link also provide an alternative solution for this.

[taltos2]

thanks, it worked! but it still crashes all the time whenever i tried to change it back to thumbnail format. is there a solution for this? :(

[Ledmik]

I realize this is an old thread, but I found it while searching for a similar problem. The problem described above is more than likely a codec problem. When you open folders that display thumbnails, the codec is used to create the thumbnail for any videos it decodes.

If you have a lot of different video formats in the same folder, try moving one at a time to a new folder then view thumbnails there until you find the format that isn't working. Then, update the codec for that video format.

[mobeen]

i have moved my video to a new folder n tried to to enable the thumbnails but the windows explorer still crashing at the moment i dont now which video is which because there just icon so its very hard to find the video which i want so please help!!

[EINSTEIN_007]

Originally Posted by mobeen

i have moved my video to a new folder n tried to to enable the thumbnails but the windows explorer still crashing at the moment i dont now which video is which because there just icon so its very hard to find the video which i want so please help!!

Can you try to uninstall/reinstall the any codec pack that is installed in your computer. Another solution would be to uninstall all the third party codec packs and media players you may have installed and install the K-lite codec pack instead which has been tested against incompatibility issues. Test this by changing the view to "list" or "small icons". If the problem goes away you've narrowed the problem to thumbnails.

[mobeen]

what is the codec pack how do u find it help please!!!

[Expertz]

Originally Posted by mobeen

what is the codec pack how do u find it help please!!!

Codec Pack are nothing but software that handles different video file formats. You just need to go to control panel and from there you have to check what all software's are installed in your computer. Once you find out that any codecs are installed, then immediately remove it and then reboot your computer and download k-lite codec pro and install it in your computer.

[This is war]

Simple way to fix this problem.
go to the said folder. right click>View>List