Re: When Movie Maker Crashes

From: John Kelly (not.released_at_dot.com)
Date: 07/10/04


Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:14:05 +0100

Hello again,

    The text was out of date...scratch the part about having it sent to you,
the program can be directly downloaded.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

"John Kelly" <not.released@dot.com> wrote in message
news:eb$aD1lZEHA.2520@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hello there,
>
> A very common problem when using Movie Maker version 2 is that it crashes
> when adding an effect or a transition and sometimes when adding text.
>
> The one stop solution for that is a program called Rename Codecs and it
is
> available from my web site. To get your copy you have to join the Rename
> Codec Forum and then request it. A copy will then be sent to you. Make
sure
> you check out the FAQ on what it does and how to run it (That will take
> about one minute of your time!!) All the info you need is on the web site.
>
> Be warned that unregistering any file and doing it wrong will more than
> likely stop the program from working all together and may cause your
entire
> XP system to fail. This is true whether you make a mistake using the
> Registry editor or the registration program itself....one mistake and you
> are potentially in deep trouble. You should think about this, if you make
a
> mistake because you typed something incorrectly, how will you reverse that
> situation? Do you have enough knowledge to know why it failed and then
> enough knowledge to reverse that situation before continuing on to fix the
> actual problem?
>
> This reassuringly safe to use program requires no knowledge on your part
> about what it is doing or how it is doing it or what it is doing it too!!!
> neither do you need to know where any of these files are or whether it is
> safe to rename them or not.....and best of all, ITS FREE !!!
>
> So far from feedback, it seems there is around an 80% chance this program
> will solve your problem if it is one of those described above and around
> half of the remaining 20% found there solution in the following
alternative
> approach....
>
> 1) Download the full version of DirectX Ver 9.0b, Media Player 9 and
Movie
> Maker 2.
>
> 2) Reboot you computer and Install DirectX
>
> 3) Reboot again and install Windows Media Player 9
>
> 4) Reboot yet again and install Movie Maker 2
>
> 5) Reboot one more time
>
> Yes it sounds very tedious, but if you want to be certain all file locks
> are removed so that the correct files can be installed this is the way you
> have to go. It is very important that you only download the full versions
> of these programs and that you DO NOT attempt an install over the
internet.
> It is also important that you DO NOT do a "lets see if that's fixed it"
half
> way through the procedure...to do so could result in you having to go all
> the way back to the beginning and starting again!!
>
> ---
> Best Wishes.....John Kelly
> www.the-kellys.org
> www.the-kellys.co.uk
> ---
> All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
> obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work
>
>



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