Any way to turn off WinXP's video file preview?

[Tofusensei]

OK, I am sure other people have had this problem, so maybe you have solved it. ^_^

Is there ANY way to turn off WinXP's gay file preview thing?

Basically, when it tries to load up a video file in the little tiny preview window, if the .avi is incomplete or a VFAPI project file, or something, it will crash explorer... EVERY SINGLE TIME. :\

Anyway, all I wanna do is turn it off, is that possible to anyone's knowledge?

Just so you know I have your various mpeg4 codecs loaded, but I use FFDShow for playback.

[Swede]

There are a couple of threads discussing this. Try this one. (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18050&highlight=avi+and+registry)

[Tofusensei]

Thank you for the help, but I did what it said in that thread and it still does the avi preview... :/