Complete movie playback failure

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tanith01

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15. June 2005 @ 02:00

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Up until about a week or so ago, my machine was running perfectly. Then it all went to pot... :(

I cannot play any video file on my computer without the whole machine locking up and needing to be rebooted. At first I thought it was just Media Player playing siller beggars with my Divx files, but it also locked on WMV files and regular un-encoded AVI files. I have even tried opening the files in other players, like Divx player that comes with the codec download and the Nero Showtime player, but with the same results!!!

I have uninstalled the codecs I have on my system (and used the guide from here to get rid of all the fiddly ones too) - that made no difference!

I have uninstalled and deleted Media Player and resinstalled it - that made no difference!

I am at my wits end now. The only thing I can think of doing to fix this is a system rebuild (which is a bit drastic, but possibly necessary).

If anyone can come up with any other ideas/things for me to try I would be very grateful.

Ta muchly in advance.

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