k, so I want to play an avi but windows media player or divx player don't recognize the file. I got the new divx pro codec and got the nimo pack but nothing. I even tried to see if repairing the divx with virtual dub but it doesn't even recognize the file. Help!

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This may be what your looking for. This was in a post earlier and the credit goes to Larry. Name: Larry Date: February 22, 2003 at 00:15:26 Pacific Subject: .avi files crashing WMP? Help! Reply: Avi files (divx) can be trouble in xp. there is a fix to let xp behave much better so it's possible to move or delete large avi files. The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the entire contents of broken AVI files before allowing any access to them is caused by bad behavior of shmedia.dll. To correct this misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}InProcServer32 This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file property queries on these files. Just an extra note, if you do a "search" for this key it will not be found, look for it manually it is very easy to find. As always newbie or not, if you FUBAR your registry its your own fault. This fix does work, I use it and have applied it to many XP machines.