Movie Maker issues in Windows 7/Server 2008 environment

[slacker20012]

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone could help with this or at least point us in the right direction.

 

We have an issue whereby when our students try to add files into movie maker they get an 'invalid path' error. Staff do not get this issue, also if you log in as local admin this does not occur. We virtualised our servers in the summer, and along with moving over to a windows 7 environment at the same time we also really locked down the system for various security reasons.

 

I guess my question is - does anyone know where this may be falling over? I don't really know how movie maker works (all I know is it's rubbish!!) and from looking at our GPO's and various scripts and what not I can't see any discrepancies that would cause this kind of behaviour to happen.

 

Any ideas would be gratefully accepted as google just keeps throwing up blanks or red herrings!

 

Cheers

 

John

[Techykev]

Are you using Movie-maker 2.6? Sounds like permission with the temporary files folder: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\ Try opening tools, options and changing the temporary storage folder or check that permissions are set properly?

[Kolts]

Hi Kev

 

The version which we are using is:

 

and the this is the error we keep getting.

 

we tried your method however those settings do not exists in this version of Movie Maker

 

Thanks for your help

 

Safa

[yhttech]

Movie Maker is not really geared for an environment that uses folder redirection. I remember reading about a registry hack for it, I can't find it at the moment.

[Kolts]

Thanks for the reply, that explains a lot then.

 

If you manage to find the registry hack, would be a massive help.

 

Thanks

 

Safa

[fiza]

We had issues a few years ago where it wouldnt work if you saved to "my documents" but would if you saved to a mapped home drive.

Probably not the same issue but thought I would mention it.

[slacker20012]

It doesn't explain why it still works for staff though - all staff and students have folder redirection in place

[fiza]

Have you seen this post in a previous thread? http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008-r2/101587-student-folder-redirection-issues.html#post874322