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I boot up WinXP, open a movie with Crystal Player, it warns me that trial is over, asks me if i want to connect to the Internet to update and re-lengthen the trial, it does that, now it plays movies with publicity, then at third movie Crystal Player get's 99% CPU usage. Then, Explorer.exe crashes and restarts. Then, after some mins, Explorer.exe gets to 99% CPU usage and it has been doing so after 2 logoff/logon and 1 restart.

Ho, joy!

I am willing to reinstall it, after all, even behind modem, router with firewal, internal firewall, anti-virus and knowledgeable usage of the OS, i is not something unexpected. But how do i reinstall WinXP without breaking my instalation of Ubuntu? BAH!!! I hate computer!

crystal movie player sounds like the problem. I'd uninstall it.

VLC
Winamp
Media Player
Flash 9

The above will play 99% of all videos reliably without any problems. Combine with a reliable codec pack.

In the mean time ubuntu will be fine, just make a grub boot floppy/cd and use that to boot back into ubuntu and restore grub to the MBR. If that fails, you always have the boot floppy/cd to get back to windows.

Problem is that i liked crystal player more than those other.

Anyway, i think crystal player is the source of the problem but no longer the problem. The proces explorer.exe goes to 99% of CPU usage right from the start, even imediatly after a boot, even without me starting crystal player. That piece of crap won't ever hit my PC again...

AF wrote:...

In the mean time ubuntu will be fine, just make a grub boot floppy/cd and use that to boot back into ubuntu and restore grub to the MBR. If that fails, you always have the boot floppy/cd to get back to windows.

Can you explain, or point to some where explaining, how do i do that CD to boot to ubuntu? Anyway, i would need to know, also, how to re-install the grub, so i would not have to rely upon the boot CD for ever, after a reinstalation of Win...

This should have all necessary info:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Recov ... ingWindows

Perfect, thanks! Into my bookmarks.

Crystal player may ahve placed components that're then loaded by explorer at startup such as services and codecs etc.

ffdshow codecs do the same for a certain video file, which crashes explorer when thumbnail modes turned on.