What is wrong with my stupid pc???

[htid]

I'm getting very frustrated with it! I have a folder on the desktop where I put all my photos as a first step from my digicam. All the files are jpegs or avis. I've had them on my old pc for years, and when I got my new pc in October I put the folder onto the desktop of this new pc. It created a problem whereby every time I opened the folder, Windows explorer crashed and the folder closed. I fixed this by dragging each file in the folder individually to a new folder until I found which file was causing this. So since October, it's been fine.

Just now I decided to put all the videos in the folder into a sub folder. Dragged some of the videos into that folder and then i get the crash again! It's really weird, if I go into main folder it's fine until I drag down to a certain point (I guess where a corrupt file is placed) and as soon as I can see it, it crashes! It only happens when the files are viewed as thumbnails, any other view and it's fine!

It really is starting to annoy me, I have noooo idea why it's doing this! Is it corrupt file? Faulty hdd? what?????

Thanks for any advice or help,
Chris.

*edit* Ok i've realised it happens with any folder that has avi videos from my camera in, but that has come from "cam" folder on the desktop. If I drag the videos into a different folder, that video will cause the crash. But then videos that are in "My Videos" in My Docs which were taken with my camera, are fine!!! I really don't get this. Seems all the avis from that "cam" folder turn corrupt! Is there any way to check/fix this?

[piranha]

Sounds like one of the files is corrupted - have had this happen to me a few times and is a pain trying to work out what file is causing it and managing to delete it before getting the error message.

[Richie P]

Try reinstalling the video codecs that you've got installed on the system, that might solve it, but it's more likely to be a corrupt file as said before.

I've had this a number of times, nothing you can do about it...identify the file at fault, delete and re-rip/re-download

[htid]

Try reinstalling the video codecs that you've got installed on the system, that might solve it, but it's more likely to be a corrupt file as said before.

I've had this a number of times, nothing you can do about it...identify the file at fault, delete and re-rip/re-download

I can't see that it's a single file, since it crashes whenever I open a folder with JUST avi videos taken with my camera, no other avis. And I can't get them back since they are holiday videos and stuff that I have no backup of :/

I'll try the codec thing to see if that makes a difference. Cheers.

[Clunk]

Have you done a full Scandisk?

[EtheAv8r]

Are there any 'hidden' files in the "cam" folder that gets created?

[Supershanks]

Like Clunk , run scandisk also try defrag which can speed things up.
is your rig oced & have you checked stabilty (prime etc.,), often memorystability issues can cause similar symtoms.

luck

[htid]

Well I did as Richie said...uninstalled ffdshow and it's all fine now! What I don't get is how I had ffdshow on my old pc when they all worked fine, strange.

I guess i'll try and reinstall it and see if the same thing re-occurs. Cheers everyone!