Screen flashes when right-clicking or deleting a video file
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This is a known problem with nVidia's ForceWare drivers, triggered by the PlayOnMy context menu that appears when you right-click on a video file. It also happens when trying to delete a video file.
I have personally seen this with a number of different driver revisions on two different cards: a GeForce 2 and a GeForce 6600GT.
The correct fix for this problem is for nVidia to fix their goddamn driver. Failing that, you can remove all occurrences of the PlayOnMyTV shell extension from your registry:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AVIFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\PlayOnMyTV
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mpegfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\PlayOnMyTV
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WMVFile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\PlayOnMyTV
Despite what the references say, you do not need to reboot for this to take effect.
The GUID for PlayOnMyTV is {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516}. It would seem that this is a static GUID. (Are all shellex GUIDs static by definition? Maybe someone with more Windows-Fu could clarify)
References:
Ideas / TODO:
- For the convenience of afflicted users, a .reg file that automates the removal of the keys given above.
