| May 20th, 2013, 07:27 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @Dragooon> No, not a new person, one I'd already considered in the category of 'pretentious idiot' but even then I gave him too much credit. (…) |
| May 20th, 2013, 07:26 PM |
Actions…Dragooon » @Arantor> New person? (…) |
| May 20th, 2013, 12:15 AM |
Actions…Arantor » And yet again, I give someone too much credit for intelligence. (…) 2 |
| May 19th, 2013, 08:17 PM |
Actions…Anonchair » If you've got a different OS available (linux maybe) try viewing hidden files and if there's a Thumbs.db file on your HD, try deleting it |
| May 19th, 2013, 08:15 PM |
Actions…Anonchair » it's a temporary fix to the problem - that command is just a way of turning a certain step in the cause of the problem off. If you do have .AVI files on the harddrive, the actual cause are any 3rd party codecs used to generate thumbnail previews. |
| May 19th, 2013, 07:45 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Arantor> Actually, just saw that shmedia.dll doesn't exist in post-XP OSes... |
| May 19th, 2013, 07:40 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @Nao> Ahhh, just that as you'd mentioned it only happened with a Windows upgrade, I'd still wonder if it was related. Can you try it on some other hardware? |
| May 19th, 2013, 07:36 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Arantor> The PC doesn't boot when my HD is plugged in, meaning it's a hardware issue, more than a Windows problem... (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 07:36 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @Nao> regsvr32 is a tool I've not seen in too long. (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 07:35 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Anonchair> No, one of the first things I did with Win7 was to disable previews and things like that. I think that was through that regsvr32 command, too..! (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 06:49 PM |
Actions…Anonchair » @Nao> Got any video files on your external? Cause of the problem might be Explorer trying to preview thumbnails of .AVIs. Open a Run prompt and enter this to disable previews: regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll (or do it manually in Explorer's options) (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 05:17 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @Nao> Roll back the patches? (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 04:07 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Nao> So, it seems pretty much a given to me now... My 700GB external hard drive is dead. Whenever I plug it in, it crashes Explorer. I changed my rack to another one, and it still crashes on me. Yay... (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 03:51 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Nao> still fails. oh my. thankfully not my work drive but still... (…) |
| May 19th, 2013, 11:09 AM |
Actions…Nao » Ohh... PC problems. Installed latest Win7 patches this morning; since then, it refuses to run with my external hard drives attached. Fantastic... (…) |
| May 18th, 2013, 07:29 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @Nao> Because I replaced ones that were already there and the old custom_edit didn't quite fit. If you want to rename it, that's fine |
| May 18th, 2013, 05:56 PM |
Actions…Nao » smileys are fixed. should add support for tt tags though... ie extended inline tags. need to remind myself. |
| May 18th, 2013, 05:29 PM |
Actions…Nao » $txt['custom_see_edit_owner'] --> in ManageSettings -- it's lost in a sea of custom_edit_ entries... Why doesn't it use the same prefix, or at least is moved elsewhere, eh..? :^^;: (…) |
| May 18th, 2013, 03:59 PM |
Actions…Nao » @Arantor> I just don't like McAdams, generally speaking. As for Moriarty, I liked him for what I saw (only watched bits of the 2nd movie), but I prefer the guy in Fringe... ;) Sherlock > Elementary > Sherlock Holmes. For me... And I've loved Downey Jr for 20 years. |
| May 18th, 2013, 01:55 PM |
Actions…Arantor » @godboko71> Because working is less fun. |