Windows Explorer freezes with (picture and video) folders

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My guess would be a corrupt copy of 'Thumbs.db' in those folders (hidden file) Delete them and restart Windows.

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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Mr Fizz" <mrfizz@fizzmail.com> wrote in message news:423f8413$0$13637$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> Windows Explorer freezes up when I open up a folder with
> other folders inside , the folders (inside ) have images on the folders.
> The images are from Videos/Pictures.
> Anyone know how to get around this , Is ther a way to get windows
> explorer to open up the same way even after rebooting ?
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

I would boot to Safe Mode with Command Prompt, to run the delete commands

cd\
attrib /s -rsh thumbs.db
del /s thumbs.db
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Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Jesse McCullough" <Jesse McCullough@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:91D6B3B7-FA7E-4AD8-99FC-3DF8239C27F2@microsoft.com...
>I am having a similiar problem. I open My Videos, but a corrupt thumbs.db
> file is causes it to close to the desktop before I can delete it. I try to
> do the same thing in Windows Explorer and have the same problem. Is there a
> way to get around this?
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> My guess would be a corrupt copy of 'Thumbs.db' in those folders (hidden file) Delete them and restart Windows.
>>
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>> Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
>> FAQ for MS Antispyware version 1.0.509
>> http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>> marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
>> ..
>> "Mr Fizz" <mrfizz@fizzmail.com> wrote in message news:423f8413$0$13637$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>> > Windows Explorer freezes up when I open up a folder with
>> > other folders inside , the folders (inside ) have images on the folders.
>> > The images are from Videos/Pictures.
>> > Anyone know how to get around this , Is ther a way to get windows
>> > explorer to open up the same way even after rebooting ?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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