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“Windows XP Explorer has a 'feature' to provide a preview in the Details box on the left of the file you have selected, if it’s supported. Image files, HTML pages, video clips, MP3s, etc are all previewed (even with the folder view open).If you have a large movie clip and it either is corrupt (ie. no index from a partial download) or it uses an unsupported codec, then Explorer tries to load the whole file. This can slow your computer a lot and prevent deleting/renaming/moving/etc the file until it’s finished.

Simply do the following steps:

1) Open a command window (Start->Run, type in 'cmd' hit enter)
2) To remove image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll
3) To readd image preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shimgvw.dll
4) To remove media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
5) To readd media preview, type and hit enter
regsvr32 shmedia.dll

Second Version: Even Easier - Make Two Batch Files

shmediaoff.bat that has this line in it:
REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL

and then shmediaon.bat (to turn preview for files that works) back on:
REGSVR32 SHMEDIA.DLL

Executing this file will remove a registry key which makes explorer load shmedia.dll that will resolve file in use problem.

Simply put, this removes the annoying “permission denied” errors when trying to move/copy/delete AVI files.

To use this fix make a new text file, paste the following code in it, file extension change to inf. Rick click on the file and choose install. Done.