I was having a problem with crashing, so with that and other reasons in mind I did a fresh install of WinXP Pro on a all new hard drive. It still crashes. I believe its the xvid codec that is the culprit. The weird thing is that is runs the movie fine. It crashes when I have the Windows Explorer open to the folder containing the movie file. For some reason when it is displaying the file, even in list form and not in thumbnail when it renders a preview pic, the OS crashes and restarts explorer. The movie does not stop playing. Every other program runs fine except for windows itself. When I uninstall the codec, there is no crashing issue but I cannot play the file. I am not at the offending computer now so I don't have any more details, but I will check this later when I have more information. I just wanted to get the ball rolling and see if anyone had any quick-draw ideas. Thanks
Yet another case of MS's buggy thumbnail shell extension. Been a few posts on this lately, you might want to look them up to see how to disable it. Re-installing the OS so won't help either since the shell comes with it. What build of XviD are you running though? Updating may help, so make sure that you are running the latest (2005.09.25) build.
