gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » avi bug http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to fix the Cannot delete Avi Bug in Windows Xphttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/28/how-to-fix-the-cannot-delete-avi-bug-in-windows-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/28/how-to-fix-the-cannot-delete-avi-bug-in-windows-xp/#comments Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:10:14 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/28/how-to-fix-the-cannot-delete-avi-bug-in-windows-xp/ The avi bug which makes it impossible to delete avis in windows xp by chosing delete from the menu or hitting del at your keyboard is caused by Explorer reading the .avi file to determine file information as soon as you move the mouse over the file. This causes ‘permission denied’ errors when trying to simply move, copy or delete these files as they cannot be changed while Explorer has an open handle on them.

Now, the fix is fairly simple. Just fire up regedit and find the following entry and remove it.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32

If you don´t have that entry you have to find the registry key below:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler


Delete the default value which should be

{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}

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