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Pailin · 30-04-2004

Or you could do what worked for me:

As I only had this happen with 1 avi again just now which I know downloaded incorrectly - was coming at a nice 50k, then speed jumped to to 500k (way above my line) apparently finishing ok?! (except way too fast)

Simply single clicking on this file causes explorer.EXE to run at around 100%. The file is of course corrupt, can't even delete through windows (XP SP1). So one 98 boot disk later, delete file from DOS (there may be other better ways, but I don't know them) --> no more problem.

Easy way to find the file if not sure - Open Folder containing the avi's, select all and right click selection of avi's \ properties (if you have a lot of avi's in diff folders and not sure where prob file is) --> if CPU usage (explorer.EXE) goes to 100% you've found the folder with the bad file (right clicking the folder of avi's does NOT work, you must select folders contents and get properties that way). Now, as mentioned earlier, end explorer.EXE's process and restart explorer.exe using "New Task" under the application tab to regain normal CPU usage. Then just single click each file in the folder until CPU usage again goes to 100%. Congrats, you've just found the problem file! (possibly may be more than one).

This problem has occurred twice for me now both times exactly the same way, with corrupt, useless, incomplete avi's that look normal, file properties and size also look normal, just won't play.

This may be worth trying before embarking on big fix windows missions (not to say its not necessary in some cases, just not mine).

Hope this helps ^^

30-04-2004	#5 (permalink)
Pailin New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 1	Or you could do what worked for me: As I only had this happen with 1 avi again just now which I know downloaded incorrectly - was coming at a nice 50k, then speed jumped to to 500k (way above my line) apparently finishing ok?! (except way too fast) Simply single clicking on this file causes explorer.EXE to run at around 100%. The file is of course corrupt, can't even delete through windows (XP SP1). So one 98 boot disk later, delete file from DOS (there may be other better ways, but I don't know them) --> no more problem. Easy way to find the file if not sure - Open Folder containing the avi's, select all and right click selection of avi's \ properties (if you have a lot of avi's in diff folders and not sure where prob file is) --> if CPU usage (explorer.EXE) goes to 100% you've found the folder with the bad file (right clicking the folder of avi's does NOT work, you must select folders contents and get properties that way). Now, as mentioned earlier, end explorer.EXE's process and restart explorer.exe using "New Task" under the application tab to regain normal CPU usage. Then just single click each file in the folder until CPU usage again goes to 100%. Congrats, you've just found the problem file! (possibly may be more than one). This problem has occurred twice for me now both times exactly the same way, with corrupt, useless, incomplete avi's that look normal, file properties and size also look normal, just won't play. This may be worth trying before embarking on big fix windows missions (not to say its not necessary in some cases, just not mine). Hope this helps ^^