Problems viewing movies

[SpinTurret]

Hey, how's everyone doing?
I'm having some trouble with LimeWire recently, just starting last night actually. I can successfully download movies. But, for whatever reason now I can't get any of them to load into a media player (I personally use Windows Media Player), not even completed downloads. Before I could preview incomplete files or launch completed files with a double click of the title or a press of the launch/preview button.

Nothing seems to work now. Any advice? I even uninstalled and reinstalled LimeWire.

Thanks!

[SpinTurret]

As an update, the same applies for songs. I can complete a download, but not launch them.

[foolofthehill]

The first thing that comes to my mind is to use the free VLC media player. It has built-in codecs and can play almost all files. Make it to your default player.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

In LW go Tools>Options>Player and untick the "Use LW media player".

That might fix it....

[SpinTurret]

Well,thanks for your help, but that's not it, the box isn't checked.

This may have to deal with problems beyond LW now but when I go through the backdoor to get to the files it says it can't--it needs to find the program that was used to create the file? For an MP3?

I don't really understand what's going on.

[SpinTurret]

Well, I got the back way to work (right click, open with)