Movie Maker Locking Up

[Guest]

I have problem thats not going away with everything I've tried.

First here's my system specs.

AMD XP 2600+
1.5GB DDR
GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3
EPox 2.0 EP-8RDA3+ nVidia nForce2 Chipset W/SATA 533FSB+
SB Audigy 2 Gamer

There's the Primary components that I have. Now here;s my problem.
Everytime I try to save/load a project on WMM, or load a movie file in WMM it
will lock up. There are other places that lock up as well but I cant name
them at this time.

Once I click the button(s) 'Load', 'Save', or 'Cancel', the file browsing
box freezes on te screen, and the program crashes. This started happening
once I went to SP2. I can make small movies with just credits just fine, and
I cansave the movie files as well. I can open my old WMM project files and
save movie files to my computer, but that's it. Everything else I try locks
the program up.

I've uninstalled the program, reinstalled it with the Windows Update
version, along with the client install version, I've also went as far as
uninstalling SP2 and reinstalling (after backing up my entire system of
course).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[Wojo]

Well first you say "There are other places that lock up as well but I cant
name
them at this time" does that mean other than when trying to work with Movie
Maker? If so then you have a system problem most likely in which case I
would try a system restore back to before installing SP2.
Second I have a question, how did you manage to "uninstall" Movie Maker
without uninstalling SP2 to begin with? The two are together and there is no
uninstall option for Movie Maker.
Honestly I think your best recourse is to do a System Restore, as I said
above, and see if WMM works (it will no longer be version 2.1 though) then
reinstall SP2 and see what happens. It is important that you reboot between
these processes as rebooting finishes up many installations and uninstalls.
Many people try uninstalling and reinstalling things without rebooting and
find that their problem was not solved but it would have been with a simple
reboot.
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

Third party programs are out there to uninstall movie maker, nothing is
isposible. I've done a system restore, although I've found the windows
version of system restore to be quite useless to these types of problems. I
am aware of restarting during the install or uninstall of software
programs/updates, which is what I've been doing. You've basicaly said to do
things I've already tried. Doesn't reazlly do any good... But hey if you
think of anything else that would be good to hear.

Does anyone else know of any softare/critical updates that Microsoft might
have produced for WMM2.1? If so that would be indeed useful to know.

--
John Clark,
Computer Freelancers of
Anchorage, AK

Well first you say "There are other places that lock up as well but I cant
name
them at this time" does that mean other than when trying to work with Movie
Maker? If so then you have a system problem most likely in which case I
would try a system restore back to before installing SP2.
Second I have a question, how did you manage to "uninstall" Movie Maker
without uninstalling SP2 to begin with? The two are together and there is no
uninstall option for Movie Maker.
Honestly I think your best recourse is to do a System Restore, as I said
above, and see if WMM works (it will no longer be version 2.1 though) then
reinstall SP2 and see what happens. It is important that you reboot between
these processes as rebooting finishes up many installations and uninstalls.
Many people try uninstalling and reinstalling things without rebooting and
find that their problem was not solved but it would have been with a simple
reboot.
-Wojo