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Ok, I have a serious problem. Ever since I installed WMP10 (at least I think that's when it started), windows movies haven't worked on my computer. By "haven't worked", I mean they take a few minutes to open, even a small one, and when the finally start, they play about one frame every 10 seconds. Not to mention they make my computer run at 100% constantly, especially while opening, if they open at all. Now for the really weird part. The CPU runs at 100% even if I left-click on a movie file. Single-click. It almost completely freezes up windows explorer. Even opening a folder with movies in them makes the computer run slowly. Even stranger still, mpegs seem to work fine, as do RealPlayer files and QuickTime files. They run perfectly and quickly. It seems that avi's, wmv's and everything else does not work. I've already run a virus scan, SpyBot, and AdAware, and I've tried The Core media player and also BS Player or whatever. Same problem. It seems to be getting worse. Does anyone have any idea what this could possibly be? I'm starting to think it's a really bad virus that is constantly getting worse, as my computer has been taking longer and longer to restart since it started. Oh, I've also disabled all the startup items (not services, just startup). .....any ideas?