I found the key that you can add the dash to to stop the media player from showing the preview on the side bar in WIN2k.
The key is:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95}
Simply add a dash before "{22D6f312-...", save the changes to the registry and close all folders. It will stop media player from trying to preview music and movies. But it will still show images.
Enjoy.
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