i know its been posted alot of times before, butis there one windows xp hotfix that interferes with certain avi's and xvids, ive downloaded a few avi and xvid vidz lately, and i cant seem to get them to play, my real player software alweays crashes, it never did that before, not i must admit, some still play, in fact the majority of them do, its just a certain few that dont, ........where can i search for a cure..cause im pretty sure its myautomatis updates that been interfering with my vidz since ive heard abbout all these ills with sp2...holla back guys

Is this just with Real Player ?

If it is just not RealPlayer, then uninstall all DivX codecs and install the latest DivX 5.2.1. DivX has fixed the Explorer crashing issue with their latest release.
http://www.divx.com/divx/download/

Or

Install 3ivX D4 4.5.1.
http://www.3ivx.com
It can play DivX, XviD and 3ivX. :)

My personal favourite codec is ffdshow-alpha:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=59355

It plays practically all popular formats, has good deblocking and other post-proccessing, is very stable. It's the only codec I've needed to install on my PCs other than AC3filter for audio.

http://www.videolan.org
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml