So I am trying to open the "My Videos" folder so that I can make a tribute to the time we spent dicking around on Saturday trying to film for the BF2s Movie (Gaz: Get a fucking mic). And whenever I open the My Videos folder Windows Explorer crashes. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix this?
I had the exact same problem with a music folder, might be a corrupt file or something like that never solved it though.
Try disabling all user processes except explorer.exe and then opening the folder.
I had a similar problem where I couldn't open the sound settings in the control panel and it turned out it was a process that conflicted with it and caused it to crash.
I had a similar problem where I couldn't open the sound settings in the control panel and it turned out it was a process that conflicted with it and caused it to crash.
Last edited by SpIk3y (2008-07-07 13:08:04)
can you navigate to it from the command prompt? (i.e. cd\users\my videos)DoctaStrangelove wrote:
So I am trying to open the "My Videos" folder so that I can make a tribute to the time we spent dicking around on Saturday trying to film for the BF2s Movie (Gaz: Get a fucking mic). And whenever I open the My Videos folder Windows Explorer crashes. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix this?
if so, delete the "desktop.ini" file and try again.
This happens when explorer tries to grab a thumbnail image from an incomplete video file. Used to happen to me all the time when I would open my torrent folder and it had half-downloaded pronz in it.
That may be it. Mostly it's raw video footage I recorded using WeGame, so there might be a corrupt file in there.GGF0RCE wrote:
This happens when explorer tries to grab a thumbnail image from an incomplete video file. Used to happen to me all the time when I would open my torrent folder and it had half-downloaded pronz in it.
Is there a way to turn off preview? Maybe you can set the view to details or list rather than preview, then it might not try to open each file in the folder before it displays them in the window.
Since it keeps crashing, you could try moving all the files using the command prompt (or a file system tool other than explorer) to another folder, then open the folder in explorer and change the view setting and then move the files back... dunno, just a thought.
Since it keeps crashing, you could try moving all the files using the command prompt (or a file system tool other than explorer) to another folder, then open the folder in explorer and change the view setting and then move the files back... dunno, just a thought.
Last edited by cospengle (2008-07-07 18:49:38)
Yeah, using WMM I've figured that this is the problem. However is there a way to set the view to details without opening up the folder?DoctaStrangelove wrote:
That may be it. Mostly it's raw video footage I recorded using WeGame, so there might be a corrupt file in there.GGF0RCE wrote:
This happens when explorer tries to grab a thumbnail image from an incomplete video file. Used to happen to me all the time when I would open my torrent folder and it had half-downloaded pronz in it.
edit: nevermid, using my uber-micro I managed to set the folder to a details view before it could crash.
Last edited by DoctaStrangelove (2008-07-07 20:57:26)
Closed at OP's request.