PapaJohn: please help!

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Reece

Hi,

I'm having all kinds of trouble with MovieMaker2. It had
been working fine for me for the last few months. The
last couple weeks it has been hanging and rebooting my
system during movie saves and sometimes during editing.

I can't think of anything that has changed on my system
that could have caused this other than running Windows
update to get the latest security patches. I have tried
all the solutions on the papajohn.org site but it didn't
seem to solve my problem.

I decided to start over and reformatted my hard drive. I
then installed Windows XP Home. I downloaded Movie Maker
2 after installing my audio driver and it crashed saving
the project. I created several new projects to make sure
it wasn't a bad imported video but all the projects had
problems. It usually just hangs the computer (mouse
can't move, ctrl-alt-del doesn't work, scroll bar not
updating). I created projects with no transitions, no
effects and no audio. These had the same problems.

I removed all the .ax files except for WMVDS32.AX and
KSPROXY.AX (I did delete the KSPROXY one but it
reappeared).

So my machine had no apps on it other than MovieMaker and
it still has problems. I just did a Windows Update and
got totally up-to-date to see if one of the patches may
have fixed this but still having problems.

Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Does this sound more like a memory or drive problem? I'm
thinking of replacing those and seeing if it helps. If
not, do you have any other ideas?

Thanks,
Reece
 
Reece,

It sounds like you might have gotten overly ambitious about removing files.
Windows needs many of them, so you should limit the renaming to only those
on the list of known problems.

Maybe a system restore to your initial re-install and trying again is the
best thing.

PapaJohn
 
It's sounds like you could have a problem with RAM or video RAM. Every once
in a while I have to open my computer to clean it out, blow out the dust and
sometimes even remove and re insert cards to clean the connections. It might
be worth a try.
Carol
 
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