Vista - Can't open Movie Maker

I get this message when I want to open movie maker...General access denied.
How can I fix this?
I have Vista

"Spoiledkraut" wrote:

> I get this message when I want to open movie maker...General access denied.
> How can I fix this?
> I have Vista

I have the same problem on Windows Vista Home Premium. It's very
aggravating when piece of the operating system suddenly stop working for
unknown reasons. Searching the internet and Microsoft Knowledge Base reveals
nothing useful.

Vista Premium was not cheap and it should work! I don't know if an
automatic update broke the feature or some other change. Since I don't use
Movie Maker every day, I can't say when it stopped for sure, but when I tried
to use it, I had made no changes recently. I did have to repair my install
and go through the telephone support to re-activate Vista. Perhaps that's
when Movie Maker broke.

"John B. Sandlin" wrote:

>
>
> "Spoiledkraut" wrote:
>
> > I get this message when I want to open movie maker...General access denied.
> > How can I fix this?
> > I have Vista
>
> I have the same problem on Windows Vista Home Premium. It's very
> aggravating when piece of the operating system suddenly stop working for
> unknown reasons. Searching the internet and Microsoft Knowledge Base reveals
> nothing useful.
>
> Vista Premium was not cheap and it should work! I don't know if an
> automatic update broke the feature or some other change. Since I don't use
> Movie Maker every day, I can't say when it stopped for sure, but when I tried
> to use it, I had made no changes recently. I did have to repair my install
> and go through the telephone support to re-activate Vista. Perhaps that's
> when Movie Maker broke.


Well, mine is fixed but it took a lot headache. Let me make explain a short
as I can. I bought my computer back in January and it came with the Vista
upgrade. When I got the upgrade in the mail I upgraded my system and it
seemed to work fine except for booting up or shutting down that would take
forever. Well, and then all of the sudden windows media player stopped
working and we called Dell. They tried to repair my system and it all went
downhill from there on. Nothing worked. It would not even boot up. Dell
suggested doing a clean install with Vista. Well after we installed it, it
seemed to be working okay, but never could open movie maker. I couldn’t even
install AIM and it gave me some other error massages. Very frustrated we
called Dell back and got lucky to get the right person on the phone. He said
Vista was not installed correctly and we needed to install XP first and then
Vista. My husband was on the phone with this Dell rep for over 4 hours and
everything is working wonderful. My computer even starts up very fast now and
movie maker works great again!
Sounds like you need to reinstall your Vista again also. Good Luck!

"Spoiledkraut" wrote:

> "John B. Sandlin" wrote:
> > "Spoiledkraut" wrote:
> > > [major snippage]
> He said
> Vista was not installed correctly and we needed to install XP first and then
> Vista. My husband was on the phone with this Dell rep for over 4 hours and
> everything is working wonderful. My computer even starts up very fast now and
> movie maker works great again!
> Sounds like you need to reinstall your Vista again also. Good Luck!

Thanks. Mine was an OEM install, so no bad install of XP underneath.... but
I'll give a re-install a shot. Meanwhile, Movie Maker does work on my XP
laptop - runs slow but runs!

jbs