[450knotOffice]

I have two computers, an old Dell DimensionL566cx PC running Win 2000 Pro and a newer Gateway 4024 laptop running Win XP Home. The PC has a fairly new 110GB hard drive and about 320+ MB of ram. Both computers run identical NOD32 anti virus software.

The problem is this: Whenever I download a .AVI file via Bit Torrent, my PC can't seem to do anything with it, and I mean nothing. None of my media programs will successfully run it and neither will any of my three DVD burner programs run it. In fact, even Windows Explorer will balk when I fiddle with the downloaded file. It's crazy. The message I get is always the same "(insert program name here).exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. An error log has been created."

The crazy thing is that if I drag the file over to my little portable drive and then plug it into the laptop, the file executes just fine. No problem there.

WTF? I am completely defeated here. I have no idea what's happening.

Also, I'm leaving on a two day trip tomorrow morning so if I don't respond to your posts it's because I'm working. However, tomorrow night I'll be able to check responses after 9 PM. Thanks for any help you can offer.