Previews are very annoying, especially if you have a folder with LOTS of multimedia content (movies, images, html files, you get the picture), and Explorer will try to generate thumbnails of them. This can take up the processor and of course your time, becoming a pain in your...
To remove this so called feature press the Windows Start button and the click on “Run…”.
In the window that appears type:
- To remove media preview: “regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll“ (without the quotes) and then hit enter.
- To remove image preview: “regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll” (without the quotes) and then hit enter.
What you are actually doing is that you are telling the computer to unregister (unload) the shmedia.dll library and the shimgvw.dll library which take care of image and media previews.
If you want to enable it again just type the commands above without the “/u” like this:
- For media preview: “regsvr32 shmedia.dll“ (without the quotes) and then hit enter.
- For image preview: “regsvr32 shimgvw.dll” (without the quotes) and then hit enter.
Posted by: Nitro on March 6, 2006 at 19:26.