Im having a really random error. Whenever I click on certain avi files, everything crashes. Restores window after a few seconds. The files play fine on my friends computer. Hes using winxp as well. Whats wrong? Ne idea?
honestly, try a different media player and see if you're getting the same error.
WMP is fucked up the ass on my PC, and I'm unable to get it fixed. It gives me errors whenever I try to open mp3s, wmvs, and the like. I've tried looking for the Sasser worm, like many have suggested, but I'm NOT infected. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP, to no avail.
its all the media players. It crashes even before I get to open it. As soon as I select it in explorer, it crashes. The only way i can select it/open it without it crashing is open whatever media player and then do open file. But then it crashes after it opens the file.
The last time I had issues similar to this, it was because of the codec pack I installed on my pc. Specifically, the Matroska pack. Uninstalling it fixed the issue, but without it installed I couldn't play mkv files. If he's not that codec pack installed, that's likely the issue but otherwise the only sure fire way I know of to fix issues like that is to blow away and reinstall windows and watch very carefully what you install so you can find out what caused it.
