Disable Windows Media preview pane, W2K

Emerson

Anyone know how to disable the Windows Media preview box when exploring a folder of sound files in Windows 2000?

It's quite nasty and ocassionally causes the window i'm in to crash..

thanks

oneweb

View | Customize this folder | Next | Tick "Choose or edit..." | Next | Tick "I want to edit this..." | Next
Look for and delete the following:

else if (IsSoundFile(ext))
                        {
                            Preview.innerHTML = '<p>' +
                                '<object  ID=MediaPlayer class=Sound classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">' +
                                    '<param name="ShowDisplay" value="false">'+
                                    '<param name="AutoPlay" value="false">' +
                                '</object>';
                            MediaPlayer.EnableContextMenu = false;
                            MediaPlayer.Open(item.Path);
                        }

Save file, close, click Finish.

Emerson

Great oneweb!
This is something that has been bugging me ever since I got Winodws 2000..
Every time I looked in Google about this, I kept getting lost in irrelevant results.

One other question.. Is there any way to apply this setting to all Folders without going through them all individually?

Many thanks..

DiscoStu

is there any way doing it globally?

oneweb

Go to C:\WINNT\Web, Right-click folder.htt (hidden file so you might need to View Hidden Files in Folder Options) Open With... | Select notepad
Look for and comment out (using <!-- -->) or delete the following:

<br>
                <span id=MediaPlayerSpan>
                </span>

Tada! This will take out the movie preview too though, but thumbnails will remain (if you want those gone,

<object id=Thumbnail classid="clsid:71650000-E8A8-11d2-9652-00C04FC30871" tabIndex=-1>
                </object>
                <label id=ThumbnailLabel for="Thumbnail" style="display: none">
                </label>

is the code to comment out/delete.

Anyone wanna gimme a job?

bricks

Goto My Computer->Tools->Folder Options and select 'Use Windows Classic Folders' and 'Use Windows Classic Desktop'
This disables the web disfunctionality.

oneweb

Originally posted by bricks
Goto My Computer->Tools->Folder Options and select 'Use Windows Classic Folders' and 'Use Windows Classic Desktop'
This disables the web disfunctionality.

or that! (But doing so will remove the file info pane and image preview)

GUI

kill the mhtml engine altogether by

(1) turning on view all files..

(2)deleting everything in the %windir%\web directory

(3)then do a search on your system partition for *.htt
and delete all the results

OfflerCrocGod

GUI what does that achive; a noticeable increase in performance?.

Frank Grimes

Cheers for that oneweb, been trying to find out how to get rid of that for ages.