You found ONE. Another is to never view the folder except in some list mode. NO THUMBNAILS!
Another is to unregister a dll but I don't like that one.
Try OTHER versions of DIVX and be very sure your OS and video drivers as well as DirectX are up to date.
Bob
Hi
I have had Windows 7 for about 2-3 months now. I installed DivX codec/player & all the stuff that comes with it after about 1 month use.
For the last few weeks I have been experiencing frequent crashes of my Windows Explorer whenever I try to open any folder or anything that uses explorer.exe. It would go like "Windows Explorer has stopped working..." & then it goes away & then restarts again automatically.
Then I went online to look for issues that may have been at the root of this problem. I found that DivX is the one, uninstalling it would resolve the issue.
I uninstalled DivX after that to find that it does work. The problem is no more.
But the problem is I need to use DivX to encode videos that I generally edit sometimes. Without DivX, I'm missing out on one of the common formats of video gallery.
I was wondering that if I can install/use DivX while also not facing any Windows Explorer crashes. I tried looking up this solution on the net for some time now. But no help! So I thought the only place I could probably get good answers to this problem is here, CNET.
Thanks in advance!

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