Windows file explorer crashes when selecting video files

Problem: Windows’ explorer crashes when opening or selecting a video file, or even just opening a folder containing video files.
Solution: Start > run > regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
Then restart explorer.exe
Simplest way: Log out/log in or reboot computer.
More complicated way: Press ctrl+alt+delete or ctrl+shift+escape to bring up the task manager. Kill the explorer.exe process. Click File > New Process (Run) and enter explorer

String reverse prototype function in Javascript

Svendtofte.com has a list of useful Javascript prototype methods inspired by functional programming. (Lovely)
But there’s one of his prototype methods that I have an opinion on, his string reverse method:

String.prototype.reverse = function() {
    var s = "";
    var i = this.length;
    while (i>0) {
        s += this.substring(i-1,i);
        i--;
    }
    return s;
}

It’s a classic C style string reverse method. My suggestion is instead this:

String.prototype.reverse=function(){
       return this.split("").reverse().join("");
}

What does it do?
x=”nitro2k01″.reverse() for example does this: this.split(“”) splits the string into an array, where every element is one character of the string. “nitro2k01” in the example becomes the array [“n”,”i”,”t”,”r”,”o”,”2″,”k”,”0″,”1″]. .reverse() in turn reverses the array, so the new array becomes [“1″,”0″,”k”,”2″,”o”,”r”,”t”,”i”,”n”]. Lastly .join(“”) turns the new array back into a string, “10k2ortin”, which is returned.

I like my function better because it has a more functional look, re-uses builtin JS functionality and possily is faster. (Although I’ll have to investigate the last claim more thoroughly.)