A while ago, I re-built my computer. At the beginning, nothing special happened, but lately I’ve had a lot of problems with .avi files. The computer is setup in almost the same way the older version was, with the newer hardware.
XP Pro, SP2
Gigabyte MB (albeit a newer and more powerful version)
Pentium Dual Core 3.0 (as sompared to the older version of Pentium 3.0)
4 GB of DDR2 (as compared to 2 GB of DDR)
Same old video card (nVidea GeForce 6200, 256 MB)
Lately, video files are stuttering, freezing (not only the video player but the whole computer) and (most annoyling) look pixelated.
It wasn’t like this when I first re-built the machine, but it’s occuring more frequently.
Other clues: AVG 7.5 won’t install, RegCleaner (JV) will install, but won’t run (except, it shows up in the TaskManager as a running process).
For the life of me, I don’t even know where to start trouble shooting.