I have a question about file extensions. On kazaa while you download a file the file it creates is a .dat extension, before if i didnt feel liek waiting for lets say teh whole song or whole movie to finish, i could just change the file with the .dat extension to .mp3 or .avi or whatever and teh file would change to the file where i can open it with windows media player and view so far what i downloaded. Now for some reason if i change teh extension of the .dat file to .avi, the file will still be a .dat file and wont open in windows media player

hey, in my XPerience, avi's cannot be previewed. thats why in kazaa (or similar prog) you can do the preview/play button (right click on a file being d/l'ed and click preview/play) for mp3's and mpeg's but not avi's hope this helps Ed

Mate i have done that myself. depending on your copy of Windows XP u can do that way, thou my copy needed to be run in windows. So this is how i did it. Install Windows ME on the first partition (c:) as normal, boot into Windows Me, put your Windows XP cd in, auto run should kick in, and choose install WIndows XP, somewhere along the way during setup at the start, it will ask if u want to upgrade or install to another partition, choose the other partition (d:) and continue thru setup. God Luck Mate

DivFix will rebuild the index of partially downloaded avi files, allowing you to play them in the media player of your choice. Based on your scenario, you should only use divfix on COPIES of partially downloaded files. If you use it on a partial file and then attempt to resume the file download it may corrupt the file and render it unusable. But, divfix will do exactly what you're trying to do. Download a (partial) .avi file, copy it, rename the file with the .avi extention, and rebuild the index with divfix. problem solved.