Please some1 help me... Everytime i click on a video file (AVI) in this case i get this message "windows media player has encountered a problem and needs to close. i have tried many things to resolve this but still the problem persists, i downloaded cucusoft converter recently and ever since then ive had the problem, ive deleted all cucusoft files and have used shellexview to disable video thumbnail extractor i did this because along with the above error message i was also receiving 2 others one was "windows explorer has encountered an error and muct close" and the other was about "dr watson debugger" since i have disabled the video extractor i do not get those 2 error messages anymore, but i still get the origional media player error message, ive tried pretty much everything, i have used hijack this and have a log of the scan but i have no idea wot im looking at and dont want to mess about with deleting files or nething, would be grateful for some1 to help me :)

I think I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the Media Player. You can do this by going to Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Window's Programs. Personally I don't care for the Windows Media Player. You might consider trying some better players like: Media Player Classic or VLC Player. FWIW to XP users: When you click on the 'Command Prompt' you are just causing the 'Command prompt' to be displayed. This prompt gives you access to NTVDM.EXE, the 'NT Virtual DOS Manager'.

None of my media players are working, i have tried realplayer, media player classic, quicktime, and the same message comes up for all of them just with a different player at the front "media player classics and encountered and error and must close" any more ideas??