Problem playing .avi files and starting applications

[pok_pok_911]

i have this recurring problem whenever i try to play a movie that is above 600mb windows media player 10 or media player classic it says has encountered a problem and needs to close, this happens everytime but a file that was 591mb seemed to work? :cry:
Oh and cucusoft avi to dvd converter never opens either it encounters a problem to, please help

My system is amd 2600+
1 gig ram
xp home edition
9600 pro

 

[lancer]

look at the drive the file is on, and do a defrag analysis of it, you may need to defrag your drive.

I have exactly the same issue, although my avi files where some 25gb's in size... a little too large.

I had to defrag as every time i went to play any kind of movie file on my d drive the whole thing locked up and i had to end task. My drive was like 80% fragmented. Now they all work great.