Movie Maker often hangs

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I have a video capture card I use to capture clips from various games on my
playstation. Now, when editing movies (skimming through clips, cutting,
combining), Movie Maker will hang up for a bit. I'll be clicking to go to
another clip, play the movie, or something else, and the program simply won't
respond. I'll click once with no response, and upon a second click it'll go
to the hour glass.

I know it's not my computer since I'm running a P4 2.4ghz with a gig of RAM,
and because during these hang periods I can type through AIM, browse a
website, and do various other tasks on the computer.

I do have lots of movie clips imported, with more than 20 collections, some
of them having more than 150 clips. Is this a fact that the program is being
over loaded with various clips and it can't handle it, or is it something
else?
 
One of the options in Movie Maker is the frequency of its automatic
backups.... the default is every 10 minutes.

When it does its backup, it takes over your computer to the extent that you
feel it's frozen, and it doesn't tell you what it's doing. The backup does
you collections and open project, so large collections can take a while.

Change the setting or uncheck the option to see if that's what it is.... no
need to reboot MM2 when changing it.
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Same problem Movie Maker Locking up on XP SP2 when the movie is large.

I used START/RUN/MSCONFIG to uncheck all non-essential processes in services
and startup. Watch out for Norton, AOL. I also moved Office OSA.EXE out of
the START/ALL PROGRAMS/STARTUP.

Turn off automatic updates.

Check your virtual memory settings. Increase ten percent.

Change many program preferences to not Start at boot.

I hope that helps.

I also split up my Projects into smaller units, then collate later.

When Movie Maker is loaded up, SAVE PROJECT after a few edits, before
playing. I also operate the mouse slowly when working in the storyboard and
timeline area.
I seem to get the lockups when clicking in that area too fast.

Unless there's too much to loose, I skip the recovery from the last crash.
There may be bugs in the recovery information which cause repetitive
lockups. I SAVE so often I don't loose much information.

In XP SP2, everytime I lockup, I send report to MS, when the error detection
dialog pops up.

They email me if there's a MS fix to the problem.

Good Luck
 
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