Windows Movie Maker frequently stops working?

Question by her: Windows Movie Maker frequently stops working?
I’ve been able to make videos in the past by either A. Making a slideshow of pictures to audio which rarely crashes (but sometimes does) or B. Putting multiple video files (avi usually) to Audio and frequently saving just in case it crashes, which it does after perhaps less than a dozen changes.

Basically I’m trying to find out how I can make it so that I don’t have to work around the frequent crashes. What happens is this: I click somewhere, anywhere, on a slide or play or file or anything, and randomly nothing will happen and suddenly the program is not responding (in Task Manager it does not say Not Responding, but I know that it is not responding because when I hover the mouse over anything for example, File or Edit or even the X to close the program, It does not highlight) when it is unresponsive like this, I will sometimes experiment by walking away from the computer and coming back, usually before the screensaver pops up, to find no change. Usually I will become so impatient that I will open Windows Task Manager and end the program there, receiving a “Not Responding” message thereafter until, probably 120 seconds later, the program ends with a “Send Error Report” message that I loathe to see.

Also, whenever I want to review the work I have done so far, I have a strategy that works 10% of the time. I close WMM, reopen and quickly play my work in progress-usually resulting in having to close the program when I am done watching and re-opening again. A huge majority of the time, it will say “Playing” rather than “Paused” and sometimes it will even show a screenshot of the very first shot, but nothing else is happening. SOMETIMES, the audio will be heard but still nothing else is happening.

Thank you for taking the time to read my problem because I am no novice to computer programs; at the age of 12 I looked into CSS and HTML, teaching myself the basics by experimenting. I am very frustrated by this ridiculous yet addicting program!

I am running Windows XP, quite sure that my computer is protected. I use Safari as my web browser, not that it matters I’d assume, and I’m pretty sure that none of my other programs have any problems. Please, someone help me out.
hey macintosh dude… good one. =|

Best answer:

Answer by macintoshAPPLE
Because its a PC.

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