Deactivating Media Preview in WIN2k

[EvilEdwin]

Under windows 2000 if you click on a media file (i.e. mp3 or avi) a preview appears on the left side of the explorer window. Is there anyway to turn this off?

Thanks
Edwin

[BipolarBill]

Try clicking View and then de-selecting "as Web page" in the right pane.

[pgriffet]

From here


http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=%23WunibO2CHA.2600%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=4


In my experience, the method used to disable Media Preview for the Windows Explorer
Folders that use the C:\WINNT\Web\folder.htt template, and for the Search Results panel
that uses C:\WINNT\Web\fsresult.htt, depends on what OS Service Pack and/or IE version you
are running. Here's how I do it:

For Win2000 SP2 running Internet Explorer Version 5.0:
1. If necessary, enable Folder Options > View [tab] > "Show hidden files and folders".
2. Make a backup copy of the applicable *.htt (see above).
3. Right-click the applicable *.htt.
4. Choose to "Open with..." Notepad.
5. Modify the template (see Step 11. below).
6. Save and close the template and the new Web View should apply.

For Win2000 SP3 with Internet Explorer 6.0:
1. If necessary, enable Folder Options > View [tab] > "Show hidden files and folders".
2. Make a backup copy of the applicable *.htt (see above).
3. Create a temporary folder.
4. Copy/paste the applicable *.htt into you temporary folder.
5. Rename the applicable *.htt to whatever.txt.
6. Open whatever.txt.
7. Right-click in the file list control area of the temporary folder.
8. Choose Customize this folder...> Next > Choose or edit an HTML template for this
folder > Next > I want to edit this template.
9. Delete the text in the template the Wizard opens.
10. Copy/paste the text from whatever.txt into the template the Wizard opened.
11. Modify the template as such:

For folder.htt - Find the 'MediaPlayerSpan' and comment it out, like below:

<!-- Comment out the following three lines to disable Media Preview
<br>
<span id=MediaPlayerSpan>
</span>
-->

For fsresult.htt - Change the gWantMedia value from = true to = false, like below:

var gWantMedia = false; // Changed from true to false to disable MediaPreview

11. Save the template.
12. Choose to "Finish" the Wizard
13. Open the hidden folder created by the Wizard named "Folder Settings" which contains
the customized folder.htt.
14. If changing the Search Results template, rename folder.htt to fsresult.htt
15. Copy/paste the template back into the appropriate folder.

Note: To rebuild/replace all corrupted/missing 'system' Web View files located in these
folders:

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\desktop.ini
C:\Program Files\desktop.ini
C:\Program Files\folder.htt
C:\WINNT\desktop.ini
C:\WINNT\folder.htt
C:\WINNT\System32\desktop.ini
C:\WINNT\System32\folder.htt
C:\WINNT\Web\*.*

Run the following command at the cmd.exe prompt:

regsvr32 webvw.dll