No Video Files playing on any player

[viperkevin]

Hi peeps,

My laptop has stopped playing all types of video files, all audio files plays fine.
I haven't installed any software, all I did was boot and suddenly when I launch ANY video player
(WMP, VLC and IrfanView).

When I load any video, the player loads but then crashes (" x has stopped responding").
I have another partition with Windows 7 Home Premium and it loads videos fine.
I've scanned with Spybot and Avast, with only 2 infections being tracking cookies.

I use Adobe Premier so I require watching my footage much too often!
Please help!

Edit: I've managed to get IrfanView to load the files and not crash, but it only plays audio.

 

[boohbah]

have you a sytstem restore point to before this started happening,
it wont tell you why its doing it but if it makes it work its a win.

 

[viperkevin]

have you a sytstem restore point to before this started happening,
it wont tell you why its doing it but if it makes it work its a win.

Hi Boohbah,
I looked if I had one, but the most recent one was a few hours after this happened

 

[ThrashZone]

Review Jacee’s instructions to run Adwcleaner here,
Ignore the title of the thread,
http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/303717-unusual-remote-assistance-control-process.html