I've had Limewire for about 8 months, and have been downloading movies and audios files for all this time. I have a problem which I did not find covered by searching on my topic. Some movies that I have downloaded seem to have an inherent problem. Perhaps they have been pirated or the creator has inserted some sort of code which causes them to crash the Windows folder in which they are stored??? I only have a few movies that do this.

What happens is they download great, and I can even view them by opening a different viewer than Windows Media player, but when I go into my Shared file where they are stored, they cause the Shared folder to crash and close. This is very irritating and the only solution that I can think of thusfar is to remove the offending movies from the Shared folder so that they do not cause the folder to crash. I'm not sure what causes a movie that is playable and even a great rip to crash my Windows folder. I know it's the movie because as soon as I isolate it by quickly moving it out of the folder before the folder closes, then the folder is fine after that.

What are some solutions for this problem?

I have visited the page with the video codecs and have found several of the links out of date. So, please, before directing me to the video codecs page by ContraBanned, know that I have already tried many of these links and have found that at best they do not work, or at worst they cause even worse problems to my computer to the point of having to delete the offending application.