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If you are suffering from a slower computer and would like to speed it up with
some easy to do hacks, you can consider Turning off Windows Messenger and improve
your PC Performance and speeding up your folder browsing. The buck however doesnt
stop here, you can still improve the performance of your computer by disabling
Thumbnail Previews for speedier computer browsing.
It would be of interest to know that the process to show the thumbnail preview may slow
down the file listing process when opening folder with large video files. Thumbnail
previewing usually causes slower PC performance owing to the errors which might
happen because Windows needs a proper codec in order to correctly and validly create a
thumbnail for video media. Without the presence of a codec, or in a situation where
codec is broken or buggy, generating a thumbnail for the media file will have problem.
This article describes a step by step process for disabling Thumbnail previews for faster
computer browsing. Follow the steps below to disable thumbnail previews for a faster
computer experience.
The below mentioned process makes use of a simple hack which effectively makes use of
regsvr32. regsvr32 is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating systems
for registering and unregistering DLLs and ActiveX controls in the Windows Registry.
Using the hack mentioned below, we de-register the associated DLLs which control the
preview generation for the specific files. Once the DLLs are de-registered, the thumbnail
preview generation process is not initialized.
2.) Type in regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll for disabling thumbnail preview for video and
media files. This will disable the thumbnail preview generation for video and other media
files.
In order to restart the thumbnail preview generation process, type regsvr32 shmedia.dll
at Run and re-open the folder.
Image: De-registering DLL for disabling thumbnail preview generation for images.
This above hack will help you definitely speed up your computer and also avoid it from
getting crashed in case of a corrupted file/ missing codec which at times can even lead to
100% CPU utilization.