Where is Windows Movie Maker?

26th October 2009

This weekend, I took some video (of my son being blatantly facemasked with no penalty, and then gang tackled In flag football with a minor 5 yarder), and I wanted to share that video with some other parents. (Yes that’s the kind of guy I am

Anyway, I just needed to get it out of my camcorder and onto my laptop to edit and email, but I couldn’t find Windows Movie Maker to edit the clip under Start > All Programs > Accessories, where I KNOW it used to be.

I haven’t used WMM it in almost three years, and I don’t know where it went, but now it’s apparently no longer on ANY of the 4 XP pro machines our family owns. WTF?

Well it turns out it’s not really “gone” – just my menu item is – but it took seemingly forever for me to finally find this painfully slow video -
showing me how to get it started.

To get Windows Moviemaker “back” on your PC, Go to to the Start Button > Run – and then type moviemk – Press enter or hit OK, and it will open.

Need to make a shortcut?

(In Windows XP)   Right click an empty spot on your Desktop and choose “New > Shortcut”

Then just type (or copy / paste)  the path of the execcutable file – in this case, with Windows on your C drive just use this -

C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe

Name is as you wish, and press finish

And you’ll get your shortcut back!

The last time I remember something like this happening was when “Microsoft Front Page Express” disappeared from Windows 98 after the version B updates.

If this method doesn’t work for you, then perhaps you simply never had it o begin with for some reason, and you can download it here dorectly from Microsoft
I wonder why the shortcut to Windows Movie Maker  was removed in the first place?

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