Windows Movie Maker Crash Solution
I found the solution to the problem I’ve been having with the Vista version of Windows Movie Maker.
Turns out the problem is the “Vista-Ready” Nero 7 that I installed at some point after installing Vista. Uninstalling Nero fixed Windows Movie Maker.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Thanks! For that, I just found that when I updated Nero 7 through the program that it also fixed it !! Try that, that way you can still use Nero 7
March 21st, 2007 at 2:57 am
I have nero 7.5.90 installed on vista. To fix the vista movie maker crash when rendering, I just renamed this folder
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter
Renamed DSFilter to something else. VMM no longer crashes and when I want to use Nero again, just rename DSFilter back to normal.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm
This solution worked perfectly for me, thanks a bunch!
August 1st, 2007 at 10:32 am
Thx guys, worked perfectly!
August 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
i don’t have nero installed yet and vista movie maker crashes everytime i publish a movie
October 6th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Worked first time thanks!
October 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Thank you so much, we had to give in a project tomorrow and suddenly our wmm got screwed. We thought our 12 days of hard work had gone to waste but this solution saved us. God Bless you all!!!
November 30th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
this worked beautifully. Thank you so much!
I have vista, windows movie maker, and nero 7 installed on my computer ~ so this was definitely the solution. Thanks!
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I have windows vista ultimate with nero 8 installed with all the latests updates and it crashes when I publish can anyone help on this??
December 12th, 2007 at 12:08 am
In Windows Movie Maker go to Tools, Options, then untick all the Nero compatibility files.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:09 am
I’m back! Ok, so I found this post where someone mentioned disabling Filters.
So in Movie Maker => Tools => Options
Select the “Compatibility” tab.
I had 2 filters displayed (AVI Decompressor and XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder)
I unchecked both of them. Clicked OK
Then tried to publish a movie and…..SUCCESS!!!
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
YESSSSSS! I love you guys! I totally freakin went to tools, options, and disabled all the filters, and now movie maker doesnt crash everytime I try to publish my movies!
W000t w000t!
- chase
clickonchase@gmail.com
December 25th, 2007 at 2:55 am
I have Vista Premium, when I try to publish my videos, the computer either crashes or terminates the program at 4%, I disabled the AVIDecompressor which is the only filter I have because I do not have Nero 7 or another other version for that matter. When I did that the computer halted at 34% and went no farther than that. I need some help!
December 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
nothing of that worked for me
and I don’e even have nero
and I didn’t have the file ahead in my pc..
what can I do please?
January 18th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Worked perfectly, many thanks for this hint.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Thank you so much!!!
You guys just saved me from failing this huge project
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you!
February 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I haven’t installed Nero but I disabled all the filters. It still crashes when I try to publish my movie! I am really annoyed! Can anyone please help me?
February 18th, 2008 at 6:43 am
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March 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I’m still having problems after trying everything that you guys suggested any thing else I could try
March 10th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I’m also having problem with windows movie maker. As soon as I import a MPEG4 clip into movie maker it crashes. I dont have nero and I tried disabling all filters. Nothing works. The movie maker was working till the day I upgraded itunes. I uninstalled and installed quicktime. Nothing seems to make it work. Help help.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
OMGOSH!!!! THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH I THOUGHT I HAD TO START OVER!!! THANKS THANKS THANKS
May 24th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
The renaming of DSFilter folder works good – i’ve been fighting wmm 6/ vista HP/Nero 7 for about a month – it would import mpg but crash as soon as i clicked the plus sign by the audio button – no probs now – thanks
May 28th, 2008 at 4:42 am
ok I have xp. I am trying to convert and avi to wmv and as soon as I drag the clip to the story bd I get the error and send or don’t send message. I don’t have a compatibility tab in my options. Evert time it crashes. What do I do? I have 5.1
May 31st, 2008 at 6:28 am
Hi
I just purchased an hp pc with vista…I uploaded sony vegas 8 and it crashes (no response) alot so I started using my movie maker that came with the pc and it does the same thing ever once and a while.. when I want to publish in to a dvi file it goes to 10% and then stops and the time remaining just climbs…PLEASE help
June 5th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Thanks for this tip!
I’ve been through two days of hell trying to get Windows Movie Maker to cooperate and this did the trick. I have a project due tomorrow morning, its 10:30 at night and I was about to have a nervous breakdown.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Thank you soooo much for that disabling-the-filters tip! That solved my problem!
June 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH – You’ve saved me a lot of grief. Damn Nero!
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I have roxio creator and when i went to tools and removed it from compatibility it works now
thanks for the suggestions above that lead to this discovery 
now i can make videos again!!!
August 12th, 2008 at 6:52 am
i’ve learned how to make videos with movie maker, but when I try to make them more intricate with the effects provided with it, I end up sacrificing the quality of the video playback, and then when I publish it crashes… I discovered you can’t mute a video that you overlayed with another audio otherwise it won’t publishh, so I have to put the volume down to where it will allow me to publish… anyways, the more ellaborate i want to edit my videos it will definately crash which really sucks, anybody have a remedy for this?
August 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am
my video come out really shitty with movie maker, i try to add a bunch of effect and fade videos into eachother and when I play them back the video and audio get all messed up…… can anyone recommend a better movie editing software? cuz movie maker is trash.
August 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I have WMM 6 Series on a Vista Home Premium which contradicts with my NERO 7.5.9 when I try to publish an AVI file on the WMMaker which crashes. Presently I have Uninstalled NERO7 and fixed the problem now WMM works fine. I tried to fix by disabling compatiblity filters but without success.Therefore :
AAA.Please let me know how to rename C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter onto
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\VMM…??? Is it with “regedit” or how???
BBB.How I can “Downgrade to a less buggy version 2.6: Windows Movie Maker 6 Crashes…
I dont know how to Uninstall WMM6.
BBB.If I upgrade to Nero8 will it solve the problem???
August 17th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
YOU ARE A GENIUS!!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Thanks so much. Project due tomorrow, saved my life.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thank you so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You really are a Genious!!!! I renamed C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter and the WMM6 worked!!!!
Thanks
October 20th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Thanks for the help! The following worked for me and my WMM was crashing during playback, while editing, and in between
I found only the AVI decompressor as an option. Once unchecked, all was well.
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javapda Says:
December 19th, 2007 at 1:09 am “”INSTRUCTIONS:
Movie Maker => Tools => Options
Select the “Compatibility” tab.
I had 2 filters displayed (AVI Decompressor and XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder)
I unchecked both of them. Clicked OK
Then tried to publish a movie and…..SUCCESS!!!”"
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November 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Hi,
I’ve Movie Maker version 6.0.6000.16386 and OS using Windows Vista Home Premium.
I sometimes have problems when publishing a movie. Sometimes it just stops in the process. Where it stops variates from time to time.
And for some movies there’s no problem at all. The imported media has the same format (.mpg) every time.
I have:
- Not renamed any files or sources
- I’ve have not Nero on my laptop
- I’ve unchecked all the video filters under Tools – Option – Compability
What can be wrong?
January 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I was experiencing constant crashing when attempting to edit or load saved projects that used AVI files. I had ffdshow installed. After uninstalling ffdshow, the crashing no longer occurred.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
i was wondering, i have the newest version of movie maker 6.
i tried to uncheck the boxes in the compatibility, and i tried the older version of it.
the problem is, when i try to import a video (converted by Movavi) it freezes up, and closes.
a thingy pops up saying:
“data execution prevention has closed windows movie maker 6″ or something similar.
any help???
February 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am
OMGOSH. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUGGESTIONS POSTED HERE. I SLOGGED FOR A WEEK FOR MY PROJECT THAT IS DUE TOMORROW AND WHENEVER I OPENED THE FOLDER, IT CRASHES. I GOT SO WORRIED UNTIL I CAME HERE. I UNCHECKED ALL THE FILTERS AND ALL. NOW ITS WORKING FINE! thank you people!
February 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Everytime I try to publish a video file it just get blank and restarts.. I can publish a movie with still images but not with video file. can someone please help me?!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:21 am
THERE ARE NO WORDS TO THANK YOU FOR THAT SOLUTION. SIMPLE, EASY and it ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
X a long suffering WMM’er
March 17th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Some additional information…
- I don’t have ffdshow or Xvid installed on my laptop.
- I havn’t seen any problems when creating movies with .avi files
Seems to be something with some of my .mpeg files that Windows movie maker can’t handle?
The log in Windows Vista doesn’t give any clue about what can be wrong.
Does anyone know if there will be a new version availbable (newer than 6.0.6000.16386) that might fix the problems?
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Hi,
I’ve Movie Maker version 6.0.6000.16386 and OS using Windows Vista Home Premium.
I sometimes have problems when publishing a movie. Sometimes it just stops in the process. Where it stops variates from time to time.
And for some movies there’s no problem at all. The imported media has the same format (.mpg) every time.
I have:
- Not renamed any files or sources
- I’ve have not Nero on my laptop
- I’ve unchecked all the video filters under Tools – Option – Compability
What can be wrong?
March 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
Hi everybody
I’ve been using WMM version 6.0.6000.16386 on Windows Vista Home Premium and it worked fine.
But this morning all of a sudden WMM won’t start anymore. I get a little box with the error “unspecified error” and when I click ok, it closes and WMM never starts.
How can I solve this? Your help is much appreciated.
Sarah.
April 4th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I have been using WMM ver. 6 just fine for the past year and all of a sudden it wont work. I try to open some previously made files and it just crashes. Here is what I am getting. Can anyone tell me what is going on? I have tried to uninstall all of the codecs that I have installed, nero, everything? No clue what the deal is?
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: moviemk.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549b5b6
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a76d
Exception Code: c000008c
Exception Offset: 000442eb
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
April 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I am so annoyed I have vista and I have roxio, I have turned off all filters in compability and it still crashes when I drop in wmv files. This is strange because I am loading wmv that directly came from my digital camcorder. Whats strange is these load up fine on my friends computer using XP??
Any help??
April 28th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I had to uninstall all codec packs and it worked… freakin’ freakin’ frrreeeeaaak!
May 1st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Guys! Thank you!!!! Now I know that all my problems with movie maker were caused by the codec pack… Uninstalled and works fine!
A+++
May 5th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Thanks. The renaming of DSFilter worked for me too!
May 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
omg! ive renamed the DSFilter file!
ive unchecked the filters (AVI Decompressor and XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder) and even tried unchecking all the filters and
NOTHING WORKS!
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WMM still crashes!!!!!!
May 19th, 2009 at 10:33 am
i took out the codec pack ! uninstalled and finally works!
May 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
new problem i cant play anything sorta vids that i made will not play if there is an visual clip. But if i add a new visal clip it will play but thi means i have to do everything over errrr. and i still need help with renameing the file so can some one put up a tutorail and the link to it plz
June 12th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Thank You So much For doing such good deeds and helping others without wanting anything in return…. I made a huge movie using WMM for my grand parents %0 wedding anniversary and all that over 2 months and wham the application crashes Thanx a LOT…
August 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
AWSOME! ^^ worked strait away, thanks for the info.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:47 am
thank you very much.!
this really helped my problem>!
aahhh..’finally..’
thanks to this comment also..’
javapda Says:
December 19th, 2007 at 1:09 am “”INSTRUCTIONS:
Movie Maker => Tools => Options
Select the “Compatibility” tab.
I had 2 filters displayed (AVI Decompressor and XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder)
I unchecked both of them. Clicked OK
Then tried to publish a movie and…..SUCCESS!!!””
THANK YOU AGAIN.!
August 27th, 2009 at 10:28 am
THANKS SO MUCH.
It’s 1.30am and I have been trying to figure out how to stop my WMM from crashing.
My video is due tmr.
ThankyouThankyouThankyou. =D
August 31st, 2009 at 3:34 am
Unchecking the boxes worked for me! Thank you sooo much!!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 am
I renamed the “DSFilter” folder and it started working, finally. I can’t believe the solution was so easy. I couldn’t use WMM for more than a year because of Nero problem. Btw, I have Nero 7.5.7.0 too.
October 26th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I FINALLY GOT THE SOLUTION…
GO TO WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER,TOOLS,OPTIONS,COMPATIBILITY then untick all applications below..
i hve been re searching for 9 weeks n finally got it…
dis is mainly due to uninstallation of applications eg, audio converters and graphic related stuff..
November 15th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Please, please somebody help me….everytime I try and publish a movie, no matter what I’ve got on it…Whether it be audio alone or even just text, it freezes up and just shuts itself down. I’m fed up of it and really need this program! I have nero 9, so can’t try the nero thing people have been on about – I’ve also tried unticking all the compatibilty things too, still no good
April 15th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Thanks man a lot!Works for windows 7!Thanks a lot,I searched on google 2 weeks and now I gave a quick search and this is it,now I can finish my movies.Thanks again!