explorer.exe crashing upon selection of some files

Hi,

After a long time of computer running perfectly I am back for some more excellent help from you guys. I'm having a very unfortunate and weird problem. Explorer.exe craps out (crashes) when I simply select certain files. These are usually .avi files but it doesn't happen w/ any files, just some, and this wasn't happening until now.

This is what I've done so far. Ran Spybot, adware SE, ccleaner, avg antivirus, spywareblaster (all updated). I even did a windows xp sp2 "repair install" (unfortunately I did this before the others, and when I did the others I found a bunch of shit, but even w/ that removed I'm still having the problems)

What should I do guys?

 

Ok I'm starting to doubt this is spyware or viruses...I have some new information. Explorer.exe will crash immediately if browsing to a folder w/ certain .avi's in it IF it has it's view set to thumbnails. If not, it crashes on selection of certain files. In safe mode, on selection of certain files it doesn't crash, but for thumbnail view it still does. I think explorer.exe is having some difficulty generating the "preview" image you see on the left pane when you select an avi or as the actual image on the file when put as thumbnail view... What could be causing it to crash for some avi's rather than others though!??

 

The avi files are corrupt. You may want to consider using a program like MoveOnBoot to delete the corrupted avi files.

 

I do'nt think they are corrupt as I can still open them and they work fine...It might be some ffdshow settings although I can't see why that would only affect some files

 

This sounds like a problem for the sofware forum, if this proves to be malware related you can always post back here.

 

You think you could move it there for me?