Sunday, November 11, 2012

Disable Video Thumbnail - Fix Windows Explorer Crash

Requires you to edit the registry. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Create a backup of anything you change.

Press 'Windows Key' + R and type 'regedit' to open Registry Editor.
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID, select {c5a40261-cd64-84cb-c394da41d590}

It is "Video Thumbnail Extractor", with InProcServer32 pointing to "%SystemRoot%\System32\mediametadatahandler.dll" whereas sometimes make Windows Explorer loading and then not responding due to excessive thumbnail for videos.

Make backup of your registry by right-click {c5a40261-cd64-84cb-c394da41d590} and choose Export, and saved it as Enable Video Thumbnail.reg

Then delete {c5a40261-cd64-84cb-c394da41d590} contents. To revert back, double-click saved 'Enable Video Thumbnail.reg' to create again the registry.

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