# Problem With Windows Live Movie Maker
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 28, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129 "2012-10-28T12:46:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/1 "2012-10-28T12:46:00Z")
Yesterday I thought I would amuse myself by looking at the photographs from my visit to China.
The pictures will open in Windows Live Photo Gallery. Said gallery includes an option to view photographs as a slide show. If I select that option, I get a message: “Cannot start slide show. There is a problem with Windows Live Movie Maker.”
There used to be no problem but I haven’t looked at those pictures in quite a while so I don’t know when the problem was created. Computer is a two year old Dell with Windows 7 Home Edition. Browser is Firefox.
Help, please.
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### Author:  [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/2 "2012-10-28T13:47:02Z")
Strange. I just opened WLMM. Selected “add videos & photos” imported a bunch of random pics and it worked as a slide show.
Maybe go to micosoft/update and check for updates for your pc. If you never turn off your pc, try a reboot.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/3 "2012-10-28T14:11:57Z")
If you haven’t seen this already, it seems to be a [known problem](http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker-program/my-photo-gallery-in-windows-7-wont-open-anything/47ebae7b-43d3-4de2-a2f8-f15f06d971e6?msgId=9ed997e4-9612-4d7f-9813-c0a2a0ab5830). There’s no firm solution mentioned but there is a workaround suggested on [page 3](http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker-program/my-photo-gallery-in-windows-7-wont-open-anything/47ebae7b-43d3-4de2-a2f8-f15f06d971e6?msgId=9ed997e4-9612-4d7f-9813-c0a2a0ab5830&page=3) of that discussion. (Didn’t see a way to link to it, but it’s the second to last post and is marked “Answer.”)
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/4 "2012-10-28T18:49:55Z")
Thanks for the input. I posted this thread prematurely as i am uncovering more new problems. AVG says i don’t have a virus and MalwareBytes says i have no malware; I don’t know where to begin other than buying another computer and downloading nothing to it.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/5 "2012-10-29T16:08:31Z")
Today everything that didn’t work yesterday is now working perfectly. I guess I have a self-healing computer. I wish my body worked that well.
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-windows-live-movie-maker/639129/6 "2012-10-29T16:53:02Z")
> [@LouisB](#):
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> Today everything that didn’t work yesterday is now working perfectly. I guess I have a self-healing computer. I wish my body worked that well.
Nice. 🙂