Folder crashing

[nocode99]

Hey guys,

I have a folder that's freezing on me after about 3-5 seconds opening it. I have two harddrives, one 80 gig (C drive)and one 250 gig (d drive). The C drive has the OS on it and I recently reformatted it. I have the D drive set to slave. The thing is, it's only doing this in one folder (and the subfolders within this folder). It's where I keep all my torrent downloads (for uh... educational purposes). I've done a virus scan (avast), scandisk to check for errors, and even defragged it. I'm at loss as to what I might have to do as I have probably 100 gigs worth of music, mp3s, etc. The error I get is something like drwatson32.exe or something. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

 

[Scotsdude]

Its probably just the amount thats in there. As an experminet, create a new folder, and copy half or so of the files out of it, and then see if you get the same issue. I had the same issue with a folder with around 80Gb in it (music, various dowbnloads and my PSP movie collection). I shifted some files out, and it went back to normal.


Scotsdude

 

[nocode99]

Thanks Scotsdude, I'll try it out when I get home from work.

 

[bcastner]

Download and apply this fix for .AVI files:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/Windows-XP-AVI-Fix.shtml

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[linney]

Do you get the same problem from Safe Mode, or in Normal Mode as a different user?

Have you tried System Restore to a point before the problem?

310353 - How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310353&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

316434 - HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316434&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

310560 - How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[nocode99]

@linney, I don't think the System Restore would work as I reformatted the computer and that's when the problem arised. I haven't tried booting in safe mode. I don't have any different users other than my own.

@bcastner, this problem happens when I open the folder, but I won't even click on anything. I can just open, wait for a couple seconds, and it will crash. This patch seems to be associated with clicking on the file before opening. Will this still help?

 

[linney]

Create a System Restore point. Then you can try Bcastner's fix. If no luck you can revert via System Restore, or the actual fix may have a "Restore to prior setting option", if you read the page of the link.

You can either create a new user or login to the built-in Administrator by typing Ctrl+Alt+Del (twice) at the Welcome Screen and using the Classic login box to type Administrator in the username and any password in the password box.

 

[nocode99]

@bcastner, the patch worked. Thanks a lot guys. I thought I would have to backup my data and then reformat and that would've took a long time.

 

[bcastner]

For the curious, the patch does this:

Deletes the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler\Default

This prevents Explorer from scanning the complete contents of AVI files to try an determine the date, time, and other explorer metadata of the files.


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