Comments on: Windows Movie Maker has stopped working

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:33:15 +0000

I was having a similar problem on my Windows-Vista computer. Here’s what I did to solve the problem, and it seemed to work.
1. Click Start, and then click All Programs.
2. Click Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
3. At the command prompt, type CD \program files\movie maker, and then press ENTER.
4. Type moviemk.exe /safemode, and then press ENTER.
5. When Movie Maker starts, click Tools, and then click Options.
6. Click the Compatibility tab.
7. In the Filters section, click to clear the check boxes of any third-party video filters that are not required.
(For me, it was a problem with XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder, Version 0.0.0.0., Path C:\Windows\systems32\xvid.ax)

(That is from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923122 ) I hope this helps…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:45:54 +0000

Hey Guys found a sulution go to tools-options-and uncheck all the decoders it worked for me BTW dave posted this

By: senioritahemara

senioritahemara — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:09:45 +0000

..i did what dave told me to do. i actually have the same problem with publishing my first ever movie maker project that i have to give to my friend as a gift. i just unchecked all the video filters on tools>options>compatibility. when i did dat, some videos won’t play and some would play. so i just converted the ones that won’t play to .wmv and it worked. the ones that didn’t play was .mp4 and i really wondered why. but anyway.. . thank you very much for the tips. i did help a lot!

By: zarmush

zarmush — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:52:30 +0000

wher can i find this tools you say dave???

By: RobbieD

RobbieD — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:10:24 +0000

Hi.

After looking at the info about about what affects Windows DVD maker for Vista, Roxio Creator 9 which came with the same seemed to be the culprit.

By: Tankitha

Tankitha — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:50:52 +0000

To lustmyeyes: I’ve had the same problem before. Restart your computer and try again. Once I did that it worked.

To anyone who can help: I have Vista and WMM 6.0. My problem is with AVI videos. When I try to play one in WMM, I get sound, but no video. I do NOT have Nero, Windows DVD, or any other program I have installed that would be affecting WMM. I also tried unchecking all of the codecs under Options/Compatability. Did not work. WMM will play WMVs. I heard somewhere that WMM has a problem with the newer versions of Internet Explorer, but I have not found a way to uninstall it as it is built into Vista. If someone could help me with this, I would be forever grateful. I’ve been wanting to work on some editing projects I have, but alas, I cannot due to black screens.

By: Eee

Eee — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:26:51 +0000

Thank you so much dave! you saved my A** tonight as I worked on a video for the past week only to find out I couldn’t publish it until I read your post! Cheers mate!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:33:00 +0000

Thanks all for the wealth of information here. Everybody seemed to have similar problems and there were a variety of possible fixes. Mine turned out to be Nero 7. Once I uninstalled it, Windows Movie Maker worked fine. Simply unchecking the Nero filters wouldn´t do it. I´m running Windows Vista Home Premium with the service pack 2 installed. Cheers.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:19:59 +0000

After reading this thread, my problem solved! Thank you Dave!!

By: K Jay

K Jay — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:57:02 +0000

In my case trying all of the fixes that are listed, none still worked!!! However i did find out myself what my problem was, I had to uninstall MPCstar player and not reinstall it worked!!! Let me know if anyone else had this issue.