Topic: Deleteing AVIs under XP

[Dack]

In case anyone has had the problem I recently had when you can't rename or delete an AVI file under XP (as it keeps giving you a "some other program is using this" error message)

The solution is to delete the following key from the registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32

This happens because Windows tries to be clever and get a few details from the file as soon as you select it, deleting the key stops this happening.

[chorleydave]

While on the subject of editing the Registry, does anyone know how to create a value that will cause Windows to automatically clear the list in Start>Run at a restart?  Every week, I go to the Registry and delete the RUNMRU key to clear it, but by the end of the week I have about a dozen entries back in there.  TweakUI has a setting to clear it so it must be possible, but as I don't use TweakUI I need to do it myself.

Thanks.

[Dack]

Taken from http://www.komputerguy.com/WindowsXP.htm

Launch the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\RunMRU.
Right-click the RunMRU key and select Export.
Name the .reg file Clear Run MRU and click Save.
Close the Registry Editor.
In Notepad, open the Clear Run MRU.reg file.
Add a minus sign to the beginning of the key name, just inside the square brackets.
Delete all lines that follow the line containing the key path.
Save the file and close Notepad.

Now, anytime you want to clear the Run command's MRU list, just double-click the Clear Run MRU.reg file. The Registry Editor will display two dialog boxes: one that prompts you to confirm the operation and one that lets you know the operation was successful. You then have to reboot, or at least log off and then log back on, for the change to become effective.

You end up with a file like the following that you can just click to clear the values out. Alternatively you can add a value to your windows startup that does a "regedit clear_reg.reg" so it will be cleared every time you start up. Theres doesn't seem to be a simple key to do the job and tweakui probsbly does something similar.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU]
"MRUlist"=""
"a"=""
"b"=""
"c"=""
"d"=""
"e"=""
"f"=""
"g"=""
"h"=""
"i"=""
"j"=""
"k"=""
"l"=""
"m"=""
"n"=""
"o"=""
"p"=""
"q"=""
"r"=""
"s"=""
"t"=""
"u"=""
"v"=""
"w"=""
"x"=""
"y"=""
"z"=""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Doc Find Spec MRU]
"MRUlist"=""
"a"=""
"b"=""
"c"=""
"d"=""
"e"=""
"f"=""
"g"=""
"h"=""
"i"=""
"j"=""
"k"=""
"l"=""
"m"=""
"n"=""
"o"=""
"p"=""
"q"=""
"r"=""
"s"=""
"t"=""
"u"=""
"v"=""
"w"=""
"x"=""
"y"=""
"z"=""

[chorleydave]

Cheers, Dack.

Option 2 will do for me.