Colin's Weekly Tip: No More 100% CPU loads When Viewing AVI Files

[Colin]

One of my many pet peeves about WindowsXP is how CPU utilization goes up to 100% when viewing AVI files. When this happens it slows the rest of the system to a crawl. As always though, there's a registry hack that can solve this problem, you just have to know where to look! <BR><BR>Load up regedit (start -> Run then type regedit and press the Ok button) and follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Classes -> CLSID . Once you're there delete the "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE650DC73E}" key then save and exit. Once that's done AVI files will no longer suck up all the CPU resources. =)<BR><BR>

[timmaynz]

I deleated the value without doing a back up. now the cpu utalisation is way up fow all my aplications so is realy lagging my comp.<BR>is there someone out there who can post the value?<BR><BR>help a noob out?

[Cawgee]

Hey, not sure how to post a file here but i exported the key mentioned here and this is what is in the .reg file i have. hope it helps.

"Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}]
@="Avi Properties Handler"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D9 4-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00 ,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00 ,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
6d,00,65,00,64,00,69,00,61,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c ,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Both"

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