[DarkLord81]

Explanation:
WinXP analyses a folder's content on opening through explorer.exe .... this is where you get those 'common tasks' (the former web-view) from (i'm sorry, if those names are wrong, but im currently on a german XP built, so i don't know their english names for sure).. windows detects if there are mainly pictures, videos, musicfiles, or whatever in the current folder... so this problem occurs with DivX-files often; you can't delete them becauses explorer.exe tries to detect, what they actually are... now, this DivX file may be say damaged or simply yet incomplete ... so win can't finalize its analyse (bad handling of incomplete divx content) ... and 'hangs' with 100percent CPU usage... and the inability to delete the file.
Conclusion:
DISABLE this 'feature' (detecting which kind of files a folder holds).. so you gain the additional benefit of not getting those new autoplay functions for cds without autoplay.
Problem:
i have absolutely no clue how to disable this feature or if it is possible at all... if ANYBODY knows how you could do that... PLEASE post!

[DarkLord81]

Thanks for the tip! I will be filing around with these reg settings tomorrow, although an option to definitely disable this feature would actually suit my needs more. So anyone already got a sollution to really disable this rather useless new feature (Most Users know where they store what kind of files...)

[Xiven]

Okay, this might work:

Go to Control Panel -> System, go to Advanced tab and click the Settings... button in the Performance section.

Select Custom and then untick all that you don't want. One of these is "Use a background image for each folder type" and one is "Use common tasks in folders". Untick both of them and try it.