Windows Movie Maker causing PC to crash - Any help please?
 

Yesterday while trying to make a in Windows Movie maker, my desktop started crashing when I have been trying to add to the timeline avi files. Sometimes it happens when I try and do a fade in or fade out on a movie file. It has even happened when I did publish movie or even import movie files.

At first I feared it was a corrupted video files in my camera, but the video files worked fine on my laptop with no problem, which was where the video was made.

I then found it would happen with files that a few months earlier, in January I successfully made a movie with on the desktop.

These crashes have even given me the Blue screen of death twice, but most of the time the whole pc freezes and I have to do a hard restart.

I could not seem to find a free download of Windows Movie Maker 6, integral to Vista on the Microsoft website. I assume I need to reinstall Movie Maker. As I bought my PC at PC world I thought the Tech Guys could sort it, but when I rang I was told this is not in their domain as it involves Microsoft software.

It has been suggested I update the graphics card driver, which I will try although that to me is quite scary as it goes outside my normal expertise..

In case I loose the whole desktop, I better let you know of the problem.

It was nice knowing you :sad:

Edit Rename the thread as the procedure turned out to be pointless

Get a new computer, That will help.

Good luck, but it'll be fine. Your computer is constantly doing little internal updates of it's own anyway without you knowing, so this is just another slightly larger scaled one.

We can't lose you Sticks! :sad: :sad:

I don't think he's had his computer very long. Plus not everyone can afford just to go out and buy a new computer.

Blame credit crunch
sign of the times

Regardless of the credit crunch, not everyone can just go out and replace their computer.

Why have you turned into Arista all of a sudden? :tongue:

It is a new computer

I only got it in January :sad:

God knows
I am going crazy
again

blame the shop

RIP Sticks. :bawling:

Sticks you are one of the founding fathers of the forum, the forum without sticks is like Rome without the Colosseum!

Oh Sticks you brighten up my day

I just ran that scary procedure and it said I had the most up to date driver

This brings me back to my original problem

Why is Windows Movie Maker crashing my PC :sad:

Sticks MMP makes my computer slow, That is why I dont use it very much

Since my system told me my driver is up to date and did not update it, I have renamed the thread to the main problem.

Now we know that updating the graphics card did not work :conf2:

Technically not quite, but almost as I joined in 2001 the year it was launched, but that is for another thread.

The founding fathers of america came after the first europeans..
Well off topic here, hope your pc problem will be fixed.

Don't use movie maker? Tadah

What else do you suggest - I can not afford a pro piece of software.

Sounds like the avi codec (software that decompresses video and audio) is crashing WMM.

Use a program like avicodec to find out which codecs (video and audio) are used by the avi and re-install the codecs on your computer.

Updating the graphics card drivers might help too - you can find out which card you have in Device Manager.

According to this site the pack contains malware :sad:

Is there another way of doing this checking?

No, that program doesn't have malware in it. The author is saying on that page that a similarly named - but completely different - codec pack has malware in it. Click on one of the download location links below to download.

I would avoid codec packs generally as they can cause problems and try and install in the individual codecs you need.

You do not have to pay for alternative software. Perhaps you could "accidentally" download a torrent for Sony Vegas 8?