Context Menu Crash Explorer

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Ok I really don't understand this. When I first installed XP SP2, I got this thing where every time I right clicked a few select file types (mainly media files as I remember), it crashed Explorer and started 'Postmortem Debugger.' Well I got a program that let me edit my registry (more specifically the context menu part of it) and I fixed this by cancelling out each program in the context menu one by one until my problem was gone. Well now for some reason it's been acting up lately. Only now, it's worse. It's not at all consistent. Sometimes I can right click my WMV/AVI/MPEG files fine and then other times it crashes the window, Explorer, and starts the debugger garbage. So for example, I right click a file, it's fine. Then I do it again and it crashes everything. Then I do it AGAIN (after ending all the crashed stuff) and it's fine again. What the!?!? The other thing that's a pain about this is sometimes the debugger won't end so then it's sitting here on taking a chunk of my memory. After these crashes occur, my system goes noticably slower until I reboot. PLEASE HELP. Thanks. Oh and BTW, it has nothing to do with a DivX thing or anything.

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Anyone wanna help or no?

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