when I move a video file, movie maker crashes

Everytime after i import a video and when i move a video file into the
timeline... it always gives me the...

'Windows movie maker has encountered a prolem and needs to close. We are
sorry for the inconvenience'. and it always asks me to send the error report
or dont send or debug. i always keep sending the report.

or sometimes it gives me

at the top it says 'moviemk.exe - Application error' and below it says 'the
instruction at "0x0488c59f" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory
could not be "read".
then it asks to click OK to terminate the program or click Cancel to debug
the program

I can move pictures in my timeline but not videos.
Plus I redownloaded windows movie maker 2 (not 2.1) from download.com to
think it would fix the problem. is there a way I can get 2.1 back and get
this problem video problem solved?
I also system restored my laptop but everytime I try doing that it says
"System Restore Incomplete" and isnt able to restore it to the date I choose
it from.

Please help me...

Hi mazuc719..
I encountered a similar problem. when ever I open the window Movie Maker
software I get the error message and it ends up closing the program. If you
ignore the error, you can drag clips into the top part but not into the
timeline to make a movie, it just hangs there. I tried everything ,
including redownloading it from CNET but keep getting the same message. I
last used it on Oct 20 and today Oct 25 it crashed. I have no clue as to why
it would suddenly crash. I scanned it for viruses, rebooted a number of times
and nothing worked. It really is frustrating. I ordered the SP2 CD with Movie
Maker on it, but I wonder if it will work after I download it from the CD. I
have read all the responses on here and it seems a number of people have the
same problem. I wonder if Microsoft is working on it. Fancy getting an email
from them, saying " oh just do so and so and it will come back up".

mine does the same even tried converting files
but still crashes ,r/booted system,done downloads ,nothing

"mazuc719" wrote:

> Everytime after i import a video and when i move a video file into the
> timeline... it always gives me the...
>
> 'Windows movie maker has encountered a prolem and needs to close. We are
> sorry for the inconvenience'. and it always asks me to send the error report
> or dont send or debug. i always keep sending the report.
>
> or sometimes it gives me
>
> at the top it says 'moviemk.exe - Application error' and below it says 'the
> instruction at "0x0488c59f" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory
> could not be "read".
> then it asks to click OK to terminate the program or click Cancel to debug
> the program
>
> I can move pictures in my timeline but not videos.
> Plus I redownloaded windows movie maker 2 (not 2.1) from download.com to
> think it would fix the problem. is there a way I can get 2.1 back and get
> this problem video problem solved?
> I also system restored my laptop but everytime I try doing that it says
> "System Restore Incomplete" and isnt able to restore it to the date I choose
> it from.
>
> Please help me...