Disable AVI Duration and Dimensions from displaying.

To disable XP from displaying the Dimensions, Duration etc of AVI files, I
found this little trick on the inter-web: Regsvr32 / u shmedia.dll.

Before I go off and do something stupid, does anyone know if this is a safe
practice?

The reason I ask is that in several folders I have quite a few AVI files and
Explorer is painfully slow at displaying the folder contents.

I realize that I can do this on a folder by folder basis (View -> Chose
Details etc), the problem here is that one must wait until Explorer has
finished - kinda defeats the purpose me thinks.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Cheers.

Shenan
Thu Jan 24 16:20:04 PST 2008

Mathew Rizzal wrote:
> To disable XP from displaying the Dimensions, Duration etc of AVI
> files, I found this little trick on the inter-web: Regsvr32 / u
> shmedia.dll.
> Before I go off and do something stupid, does anyone know if this
> is a safe practice?
>
> The reason I ask is that in several folders I have quite a few AVI
> files and Explorer is painfully slow at displaying the folder
> contents.
> I realize that I can do this on a folder by folder basis (View ->
> Chose Details etc), the problem here is that one must wait until
> Explorer has finished - kinda defeats the purpose me thinks.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.


http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1209/

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Mathew
Fri Jan 25 22:34:54 PST 2008

I went ahead and used this technique and have had no problems so far.

Seems ok.

Cheers...
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mathew Rizzal wrote:
>> To disable XP from displaying the Dimensions, Duration etc of AVI
>> files, I found this little trick on the inter-web: Regsvr32 / u
>> shmedia.dll.
>> Before I go off and do something stupid, does anyone know if this
>> is a safe practice?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that in several folders I have quite a few AVI
>> files and Explorer is painfully slow at displaying the folder
>> contents.
>> I realize that I can do this on a folder by folder basis (View ->
>> Chose Details etc), the problem here is that one must wait until
>> Explorer has finished - kinda defeats the purpose me thinks.
>>
>> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
>
> http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1209/
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>