AVI causes windows explorer to shut down and won't play

I’ve downloaded a few TV series. When I click on a folder, the usual happens and all the videos appear in an explorer. A couple then fail to load the image and then windows explorer says it has encountered a problem.
The same files work fine on my friends PC. Can anyone help?

Also, when I try to make a DVD of the series, the audio and video don’t synch correctly?

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Windows_XP_AVI_Fix.htm

It a common problem caused by WinXPs AVI-preview. Run the program from the link above and the problem should by fixed. It helped me.

thansk a lot, problem fixed! your a star!

And oh yeah 'TopsyTurvy' the only mistake in life is thinking knowing about computers is life, everyone has to start/learn somewhere, maybe others haven’t got the oportunity to learn like you.

Christian I hope that you are sorted. But I had a similar problem. Every time I selected a n avi file windows explorer said it had a problem and closed down.The problem turned out to be a change of settings in media player. When
I checked the settings it had a tick in automatically get
licence for protected files. Of course all videos and dvd’s are protected, once I removed the tick the job was done,
As for files not deleting go to downloads.com and download the free program dr delete click the browse button and select the file you will have to select each file and click delete then reboot the folder will be empty after the reboot and you can then right click and delete the empty folder