Windows 10: Folders with videos sometimes freeze Explorer. Is there some kind of indexing or caching...

I have a folder on my hard drive where I store movies & TV shows (which I rip from my own discs etc.), and often when there's a new video in the folder or one of its subfolders, Explorer often freezes up for a minute or so when I have the folder open. I'm wondering if Windows is probably doing some scanning of the folder for indexing or caching or something? If so, is there a way to disable that for certain folders so it doesn't freeze up?

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List \ Index video clips

Hello Bree,
Thanks for the answer.
First I opened the address in your answer, updated Chrome, then checked those video clips separatly in a player - all are ok.
Then I tried to call the videos from the index list opened in Chrome, some still refused to play.
Opened the index list in Edge - all of them played. Then opened the index list with the original internet explorer - got an error message for each video - file is corrupt.
Cunclusion - I will open the index lists in Edge, but to make the indexes best is with Chrome.
Thanks again.

 

Explorer Search: Not all video files are found for kind:=video

As Windows doesn't recognize .DIVX and .FLV files as "video" by default, they won't appear as such in the search results. You surely found more extensions behaving like that. Basically, you have a folder and you know there are such video files in it. If
you search for them with Windows Explorer using the option "kind:=video", they won't be listed in the search result.



SOLUTION

You have to add such extentions to Windows' registry "Kind" key.



1. Launch regedit.exe. (But do not do that on your own, if you are a novice in computers and you don't understand what damage the wrong handling of it can cause to your operating system.)



2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\KindMap.



3. Right-click on KindMap then New/String Value. Name the string as the extension you want to add, like:

.divx

Enter.



4. Right click on the new string and choose Modify...

Type the "Value data" as the intended type, for example:

video



That "Value data" field can contain multiple file types separated by ";", example:

video;movie



The accepted types (kinds) are listed here:

Using Kind Names - Win32 apps



You can consider a .DIVX file as a video and/or a film. Not funnily, it you mark it as "movie" in that "Value data", when you search for the file in Windows Explorer, the "kind" will not be "movie", but "film"!



5. Repeat that for any extension you want to add.



6. Close the registry and go to Control Panel/ Indexing Options/ Advanced Options and the 2nd tab "File types". Select the extension. The radio button below defaults to "Index Properties Only". If you want to index the contents
(useful if it is a text file type), then click "Index Properties and File Contents". Check that for any new extension you have added.



7. Go the 1st tab "Index Settings" and click Rebuild. It will take a while for the files to be re-indexed with the new changes you made.

 

Clear the 'cache' in file explorer for already used picture tags?


If you set some tags for your *.jpg pictures, the windows 10 file explorer shows them in the "details pane" on the right side.





This list can get very long and with some wrong or no longer used entries.
How can I clear this list / cache / suggestions?

Or how can I stop the file explorer to suggests already used Tags?