Nova minimizes the the system tray, but you have made your desicion so that is cool with me if you do not want to use it.
As for the problem, well check it out in gspot (included in k-lite pack) see if you have the codec, if it will render properly. Try diffrent players, I have never have problems with avi's in straight up windows media player 8, but those that do love either bsplayer or videolan.
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