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Originally Posted by Bobcoop103

I have WinXP Home SP2 with an Athlon 64 X2 and a gig of memory and plenty of HD space. when I go to MY VIDEOS folder and try to open a large video file I get a message that MSIE has to close and I am left with a blank screen except for the background graphic. The only way I have been able to get back to a normal desktop is to reboot. I was not using MSIE at the time. Any ideas? thanks, Bob

You may not think that you were using MSIE but it's not just a web brower as Windows requires MSIE running just to see your desktop.
I'll go along with Darthtanion's suggestion 1st but supplying full system details could be of help also.