explorer.exe crashing when video files are selected?

[rmthegreat88]

my computer is being amazing. With some video files and not others it decides to crash explorer.exe. one type that does crash is a ".wmv" file that i can't tell what it is encoded with, becasue wheni open the containing file it still crashes though i am able to interact with the file that contains it for a smal period of time.

when i try to right click it and see what it is encoded with i get another error a program called data debugger crashes and it(my computer) goes haywire.

i recently updated my videocard drivers and it fixed it for some video files, before i updated, every single file that i had would crash.

so what is going on and how do i fix this?

[DaMan05]

Os?

[lightshow]

When you click the video file, does it try to open a video player, and then explorer.exe crashes,

or

does explorer.exe crash the second after you try to open the video file?

[rmthegreat88]

im working on windows xp professional, service pack two.

as for what happens, i open the containing folder and it crashes. I belive that it is trying to load the thumbnail view for it.

[Complex||4-4-2]

XP SP2

I get this EVERYTIME i open a folder with a .avi init, then i have to ctrl+alt+delete and close dr watson to make the pc work agen

[mbucari1]

Something similar has happened to me. While trying to generate previews, it crashed explorer. I believe I turned off caching in thumbs.db.

[Complex||4-4-2]

Yeah i turned it off and it still does it lol .

[ Had already tryed that ]

[rmthegreat88]

well its good to know that im not alone, but how do i get to thumbs.db?

[inkmaker23]

I had same problem. Was caused by 2 Xvid codecs. Renamed one in syst32 folder (to disable) and problem
solved. Check your codecs with Sherlock (google "codecs sherlock" if you don't have it) . Check bottom of list-
may be damaged xvid codec or two codecs causing windows conflict and freeze. Good luck.

[tesco]

In vista i had a similar problem until recently. Instead of explorer crashing, I'd just get constant error popup dialogs about explorer when viewing a folder with video files in it.
Fixed since I installed the latest klite codec pack though, I think.