How to reinstal/repair Movie Maker?

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I have Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0 runing under WinXP Pro SP2.

All of a sudden it started to crash a couple of seconds after launching.

I tried to reinstall it from \Windows\Inf\moviemk.inf. It did not work. The
installation routine complained that it cannot copy files to the destination
though I precisely pointed to the files that should be copied. In spite of
these complaints it seems that the files were copied anyway. However Movie
Maker is still in a non-working state.

I wouldn't like to reinstall Windows or SP2. Is there anything I could do? I
am unable to find any installation package for Movie Maker which seems
strange.

Kind regards
MJ Wiechowski
 
Just one comment...

I find it ridiculous that Microsoft does not provide a separate
(re)installation program for Movie Maker as quite a few people have the same
problems as me.

I tried every possible trick I could find on the net to revive my Movie
Maker and it still crashes after start.

Kind regards
MJ Wiechowski
 
MJ said:
Just one comment...

I find it ridiculous that Microsoft does not provide a
separate (re)installation program for Movie Maker as
quite a few people have the same problems as me.

I tried every possible trick I could find on the net to
revive my Movie Maker and it still crashes after start.

Kind regards
MJ Wiechowski
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Try the following site:

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website -
http://www.papajohn.org

Go to...Problem Solving / Crashes and Hangs

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Did you try doing a windows restore back to when it WAS working?
I agree that being able to uninstall and reinstall Movie Maker independently
would be nice but the fact is the program came bundled with SP2 so it does
stand to reason that SP2 would need to be uninstalled and reinstalled to
reinstall Movie Maker.
-Wojo
 
I have an interesting problem where, using perfectly valid imported files and
codecs, my Movie Maker will not save the resulting movie no matter how simple
it seems. Clicking on the save entry does not bring up the save wizard; the
program just hangs and must be killed off in task manager.

Movie Maker works fine on my Toshiba laptop. This problem only affects my
desktop, which is an old Athlon XP1700+ machine with 512 MB RAM and an
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE display adapter. The computer is running a
completely up-to-date installations of XP SP2.

It's strange and silly that Movie Maker isn't provided as a standalone
downloadable application that could merely be reinstalled, which I am sure
would solve the problem.
 
I agree. Initially I understood and had no problem with WMM being packaged
with SP2 and since I have never had to reinstall it myself it didn't bother
me that I couldn't easily do so. But as I find myself time and time again
running into users that do need to reinstall for whatever reason I agree
that it would be nice to be able to simply point them to a link where they
can download and reinstall Movie Maker without having to mess with SP2.

As far as your issue goes problems are reported time and time again with
people using NVIDIA video cards could it be that a new updated driver?

-Wojo
 
Wojo said:
Did you try doing a windows restore back to when it WAS working?
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I may try that next. First I decided to download and install the latest
stable, production version of my nVidia drivers totally cleanly -- removing
all the old drivers first, which is a real hassle because it reverts my
display to the most basic VGA. I have successfully installed the drivers now
and reconfigured my display, and am still testing all kinds of things (not
just Movie Maker) out.

I did this because I have suffered another seemingly purely video symptom
lately, the dreaded sporadic green screen on Windows Media Player 10. It has
been resistant to any manipulating of the codecs and seems to be another
symptom of nVidiaitis.

I was actually running a more recent release of my nVidia drivers (v.
84.25); I reverted to v. 84.21, which is the most recent version offered by
nVidia as a production release for my card.

If this fails I guess I'll have to revert to pre-SP2 and then go through all
that Windows updating again (HEAVY sigh!). If that doesn't solve the problem
it may become moot, as I'm likely to seize my computer and dash its brains
out against the wall.
 
Dr. Planarian said:
I may try that next. First I decided to download and install the latest
stable, production version of my nVidia drivers totally cleanly --
removing
all the old drivers first, which is a real hassle because it reverts my
display to the most basic VGA. I have successfully installed the drivers
now
and reconfigured my display, and am still testing all kinds of things (not
just Movie Maker) out.

I did this because I have suffered another seemingly purely video symptom
lately, the dreaded sporadic green screen on Windows Media Player 10. It
has
been resistant to any manipulating of the codecs and seems to be another
symptom of nVidiaitis.
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nVidiatis, I like that! It seems nVidia is the cause to a lot of problems
not just with Movie Maker but with many video intense programs.
I was actually running a more recent release of my nVidia drivers (v.
84.25); I reverted to v. 84.21, which is the most recent version offered
by
nVidia as a production release for my card.

If this fails I guess I'll have to revert to pre-SP2 and then go through
all
that Windows updating again (HEAVY sigh!). If that doesn't solve the
problem
it may become moot, as I'm likely to seize my computer and dash its brains
out against the wall.
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Well hopefully it won't come to that! :-)
If you want to save yourself a lot of headache order a disc from Microsoft.
It's free and comes with SP2 and all the latest updates. I always get mine
within a couple weeks.
Here's the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
-Wojo
 
The best thing i ever did was go to the store and buy a cheap video program
similar to Windows Movie Maker
Plus it has more than Movie Maker
 
The repair Window.Dll worked!

What more can I say. After clicking on the repair window.dll download, my Movie Maker finally imports avi files again. Thank you.
 
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