Moviemaker does not start

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Billinares

I use Vista Ultimate, which includes the Moviemaker application to edit
videos. I had no problems with this program till a couple of months ago when
it crashed. Afterwards the program would not start when launched. In the
Task Manager the process would be listed, but no Moviemaker was visible.
Looking around in the Internet I found a way to start it with the command
"moviemkr.exe /safemode"; I also tried the advice of deactivating some of
the codecs used. To no avail: The above command doesn't always work and
only once when it does (after the program is exited the system must be
rebooted to start it again). However most of the time the program just does
not start, no matter what. I've tried all the tricks of the trade (booting
in protected mode, launching application as administrator, tinkering with
the registry).

The big obstacle is of course that the application is part of the operating
system, so that I cannot just re-install it (I wonder what is the advantage
of having such applications being part of the OS). Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks

BL
 
I use Vista Ultimate, which includes the Moviemaker application to edit
videos. I had no problems with this program till a couple of months ago when
it crashed. Afterwards the program would not start when launched. In the
Task Manager the process would be listed, but no Moviemaker was visible.
Looking around in the Internet I found a way to start it with the command
"moviemkr.exe /safemode"; I also tried the advice of deactivating some of
the codecs used. To no avail: The above command doesn't always work and
only once when it does (after the program is exited the system must be
rebooted to start it again). However most of the time the program just does
not start, no matter what. I've tried all the tricks of the trade (booting
in protected mode, launching application as administrator, tinkering with
the registry).

The big obstacle is of course that the application is part of the operating
system, so that I cannot just re-install it (I wonder what is the advantage
of having such applications being part of the OS). Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks

BL
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The best help anyone can give you about Moviemaker (a toy) is telling
you to ditch it and use a REAL video editor application. It will save
you hours of needless frustration.
 
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