Explorer lock-up on opening large folders

[Solnyshko]

Frankly very irritating - Seems to happen with folders containing media files - images or mpegs or a mixture of.

I've just recently transferred a Gig's worth of images from my camera to HDD but am unable to view or move them as explorer freezes whenever I open the folder, prompting a restart every time.

This kind of thing is happening with increasing regularity on my PC, a windows reinstall is in the offing, but don't have the time to do this for a while.

Is there a quick fix?

I think it may have to do with the way windows caches media files or thumbs of ... but not sure.

Have a decent amount of RAM and processing power (1gb & 2.8Gb respectively), so not due to low resources.

Any help appreciated!

Cheers

Sols

 

[Solnyshko]

turn off media preview. start, run

regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll



if had a pound for everytime i've posted this i'd be rich.

ooh cool, thanks - that should do it

but er... how do I renable it?

 

[Solnyshko]

regsvr32 shmedia.dll

doh!