Windows explorer hangs on accessing Videos

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Hi friends,

I have AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ (Brisbane) around 4yrs old now. Whenever I access a folder containing Videos, the CPU usage steps up to 100% instantly and windows explorer starts hanging & then there is no other way than killing & restarting the windows explorer from task manager. I have 2x2gb ddr2 ram modules (Kingston & Dynet) installed on Asus M2n-MX-SE mobo and Windows 7 Ultimate OS.

Plz help me to under stand what is the problem & is there any cure for it?
Plz let me know if any other information required from my side.

Thanks

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See task manager & let us know which process consumes the processor cycles.

ok, will check it after reaching my home.

I have uploaded screen shots of task manager.

gauravranu said:
ok, will check it after reaching my home.

I have uploaded screen shots of task manager.

Try installing latest codec packs like K-lite. Explorer usually crashes while generating thumbnails for your videos. I had faced similar issue with one of the versions of K-Lite, but solved it by updating the same. If that also does not solve it try diabling generation of thumbnails either by doing some registry tweaks or using tools like twaekui.

hope this helps.

Looks like a virus creating the problem. It must be in the folder containing the video files.
Or,
The folder containing video is corrupt.