DarkLord81

Thanks for the tip! I will be filing around with these reg settings tomorrow, although an option to definitely disable this feature would actually suit my needs more. So anyone already got a sollution to really disable this rather useless new feature (Most Users know where they store what kind of files...)

Explanation: WinXP analyses a folder's content on opening through explorer.exe .... this is where you get those 'common tasks' (the former web-view) from (i'm sorry, if those names are wrong, but im currently on a german XP built, so i don't know their english names for sure).. windows detects if there are mainly pictures, videos, musicfiles, or whatever in the current folder... so this problem occurs with DivX-files often; you can't delete them becauses explorer.exe tries to detect, what they actually are... now, this DivX file may be say damaged or simply yet incomplete ... so win can't finalize its analyse (bad handling of incomplete divx content) ... and 'hangs' with 100percent CPU usage... and the inability to delete the file. Conclusion: DISABLE this 'feature' (detecting which kind of files a folder holds).. so you gain the additional benefit of not getting those new autoplay functions for cds without autoplay. Problem: i have absolutely no clue how to disable this feature or if it is possible at all... if ANYBODY knows how you could do that... PLEASE post!

Quote: I had the same problem with a large .avi file that refused to be deleted. I found that killing all instances of explorer.exe in task manager and then deleting the files from the command prompt works. Very strange that you'd have to do this though. Something's not right. Exactly something IS not right, but (referring to THIS problem, which also strikes me) it is a FEATURE of WindowsXP which leads to all this fuss.... Explanation: WinXP analyses a folder's content on opening through explorer.exe .... this is where you get those 'common tasks' (the former web-view) from (i'm sorry, if those names are wrong, but im currently on a german XP built, so i don't know their english names for sure).. windows detects if there are mainly pictures, videos, musicfiles, or whatever in the current folder... so this problem occurs with DivX-files often; you can't delete them becauses explorer.exe tries to detect, what they actually are... now, this DivX file may be say damaged or simply yet incomplete ... so win can't finalize its analyse (bad handling of incomplete divx content) ... and 'hangs' with 100percent CPU usage... and the inability to delete the file. Conclusion: DISABLE this 'feature' (detecting which kind of files a folder holds).. so you gain the additional benefit of not getting those new autoplay functions for cds without autoplay. Problem: i have absolutely no clue how to disable this feature or if it is possible at all... if ANYBODY knows how you could do that... PLEASE post!