have you tried a different video player (i.e. zoom player or crystal player) to find out if its WMP that's doing this?

best thing to do is rule out problems. try a different video player. try playing movies under explorer instead of LS. try a different theme. try different file formats (divx avi, xvid avi, mpg, wmv). the best thing you can do is narrow down the problem and then go from there.


and i used to have a program that let you run exe's as a service, and then just restarted the service. for the life of me i can't think of the name of it, but if i can find it i'll post some links here. very handy tool.