Windows Explorer crashes after launching MP3 file

[orlandoph013]

Windows XP SP1 here with Windows Media Player 9. Whenever I browse to my Music folder and launch an MP3 music file, the song plays but Windows Explorer crashes with a message and asks if I want to send data to Microsoft. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[linney]

Have you got all your updates for Windows?

http://securecomputing.stanford.edu/alerts/windows-shell.html

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+files%22%2Bwindows%2Bxp%2Bproblem%2Bexplorer

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...+files%22%2Bwindows%2Bxp%2Bproblem%2Bexplorer

A suggested workaround: Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to
the key below and delete the default data (right pane).

For AVI's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avishellex\PropertyHandler

For MP3's

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.mp3\shellex\PropertyHandler

Note: Make a backup of each key before editing.


Have a look around these links.

Select a file - windows stops.
thread779-422825

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html