[nereid]

Is there a certain kind of virus/adware that *knows* when you're running a virus scan? I swear, every damn time I run my virus scan or adware scan, my computer shuts down. WITHOUT FAIL. Should I take it in to be looked at?

[northpole]

Syba, you might also want to try downloading and using the free media player available from VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/).

It plays all the common (and some of the not so common) video file types, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.

I've liked it and it has played some videos I've downloaded via torrents that I couldn't seem to play with any other player.

It is a fairly large player to download (9.2 MB that is self-extracting; 15.4 MB normally) so you may want to try playing with differnt codecs and such in Windows Media Player first.

Also Syba, when you are in WMP, if you hold "Alt" and press "V", you should be able to get the "View" menu to appear.

Out of curiosity, what is the file extension (eg .avi .mov etc) of the vids you're trying to view?

~North "it says press any key: where's the 'any' key?" pole