Windows Movie Maker

Haven't used WMM for a long time and now when i'm trying to make a slideshow movie of pictures, things are not working correctly.

That preview player doesn't work. When i edit start or credit text, player is just blank, i can't play the show or even save the movie to hard drive. I got 2.1 version.

What's wrong?

Have you had a quick look here CeeCee just in case its something easy?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/m...ker/21/faq.mspx

Didn't found solution there. I tried to disable all the filters/splitters, but didn't helped.

I have had eMule running all the time in the background. Can it affect?

I wouldn't think so.

Have you tried tools>compatability in WMM and unchecked some things in case of conflict?

EDIT....

Ignore that CeeCee forgot you said you tried that, I was busy searching google for you

I was busy searching google for you

Gotta mention that i have also searched with Google, before posting here. Also posted to couple of other forums before this forum.

Have you used any aggressive registry cleaners that could have damaged it? Reinstalling it "may" fix it, I don't know if you can download WMM from Microsoft or not as searching Microsoft Downloads didn't turn up any WMM setup file for XP.

I just re-installed it, but didn't helped.

I'm very frustrated right now. All i need to do is a simple picture slideshow and i can't do that! I don't wanna download any fancy program for that, because it's possible to do with MM, only if the god damn program would work!! :angry:

I don't know if this clears anything, but i get "class is not registered" when i click 'play' on preview player.

CeeCee, can you not do the same thing with Photostory 3?

I've got WMM, but I never use it.

Don't forget you can also very easily make slideshows in IrfanView either .SCR screensaver format, or .EXE. Just throwing you another viable option like DennisD already has since WWM isn't working.

I've got WMM, but I never use it.

Ditto!

Go into windows media player and make it the default player for all formats available. then see if it works in movie maker.

Sounds like the file type associations could be messed up from that error.

try this:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

try this:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

I have already tried that.

I found another nice program to make a slideshow movie and that worked!

http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools/SSMM/index.html