Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7

No, there isn't a download of Movie Maker 6, the version that came with vista. To get it to Windows 7 you need to copy it from a Vista system and register the DLLs.... which is a techie enough thing to do that you should find some local help.

Hi...First off let me say one thing, I am, unlike the others who have posted comments, not computer suavy at all! I had movie maker on my old computer with vista, I learned how to make my way around it and understand it. I recently bought new computer, has windows 7...has windows live movie maker...I do not understand nor have the patience to figure it out, it is very different to me. what I want to know is, can I download from interent the windows movie maker that came with vista and will it work correctly with windows 7. Also if I can and it will work is there anything I would need to do other than go to website and download it? Please forgive my ignorance.

Movie Maker in XP, Vista, and now Windows 7 was made to work well with DV camcorders connected by firewire. The help file of MM6 says it doesn't do other than firewire and suggests using other software for capture by USB.

In your case, using another computer to copy the MM6 files from.

Camcorders connected by USB usually come with software you can use to do the capturing. I'd try that first. Beyond that, depending on the camcorder brand and model, connecting it and simply copying the files using explorer might do it.

Capture from camcorder using USB does not work for me in MM Live.

Window 7 upgraded in place from Vista so no place to copy MM6 from.

Can you offer any solution?

It's why you didnt' get the extra options. It's because of malware that impersonates options like Windows Explorer and removes the authentic ones.

What happened is normal when you upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, which doesn't come with Movie Maker..

Movie Maker 2.6 wasn't an upgrade from MM6 in Vista. It was a work-around for those who had problems running MM6. It was a stripped down version of MM2.1 from XP, which would make it not a forward compatibility issue..

I upgraded Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 and then installed Movie Maker 2.6. Now I get an error message from MM2.6 saying that my projects were created with a version of Movie Maker that's not supported. None of them will open. What happened? Has anyone else had this problem? There are no other versions of Movie Maker (such as Version 6) available for download. Why aren't MM project files forward compatible?

One clue for me is that a clean/reformat drive option ends up taking about 20 mintues to install Win7. The 'upgrade' that maintained my files and settings (including Photo Story 3) took about 4 hours.

I definitely will not uninstall PS 3. But I'm confused. I have forgotten the choices I had, but apparewntly there were three, one complete/clean, one where you retain all of your programs as installed, and then one that is somewhere in between - the one I chose.

All I know is that when I finished ther were no applications installed, except those that were part of Win 7.

At the time, I thjought I had chosen the most complete and fresh update I could. I guess I btter review the choices I was given for future reference.

Hi Don,

Sounds like you did an upgrade, not a clean wipe-the-drive-clean type of installation. I did that also on my Toshiba Vista laptop and Photo Story 3 continued to work fine afterwards.

But, as my clean Windows 7 installs wouldn't run the installation app of PS3, I did an uninstall of PS3 on my Toshiba, followed by an attempted reinstall. If you really want to keep PS3 in Windows 7, don't uninstall it.