Often,you would have encountered the windows explorer crashing when a folder containing video files is opened.The same thing has happened to me a lot of times. The reason for this is mainly the presence of a corrupt clip in the particular folder.

The Windows Explorer has a feature by which a preview of the file selected is shown in the Details box. One or some of the files may be either be corrupt or having unsupported codec,resulting in the whole file being loaded,which ultimately slows the computer down and may also crash the explorer.


I tried a lot of methods which i got through the internet.One of the methods that i got was to follow the following steps:

• Open command Window.Start->run and type cmd and enter

• Type regsvr32/u shimgvw.dll and hit enter.This removes the image preview.Now you will get an alert box saying ‘DllUnregisterServer in shimgvw.dll’ succeeded.

• Type regsvr32/u shmedia.dll and hit enter.This removes the media preview.Now you will get an alert box saying ‘DllUnregisterServer in shmedia.dll’ succeeded.

Now if you know which file was corrupt,then delete the particular file.Sometimes,we may not be allowed to delete the file.In that case,cut the file and paste in the recycle bin and empty the recycle bin.

If you still want to have the preview of the file in the Details box after you have fixed the error,you can add the image and video previews back.Just follow the following steps for that.

• Type regsvr32 shimgvw.dll and hit enter.This removes the image preview.Now you will get an alert box saying ‘DllRegisterServer in shimgvw.dll’ succeeded.

• Type regsvr32 shmedia.dll and hit enter.This removes the media preview.Now you will get an alert box saying ‘DllRegisterServer in shmedia.dll’ succeeded.

That should work in most cases.But my problem wasn’t solved.But sometimes the reason could be because of some installation of a media player going wrong.Eg: i had installed a media player and that’s when the problem started.I don’t know the reason why the problem arose,probably some error of the codec,but once i uninstalled the video player,all went back to normal and the problem was solved and finally i got rid of the disgusting error!!

So first try to uninstall the newly installed player or codec pack and then try to remove the image and video previews if the former method  doesn’t work.

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