Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Error: Windows Movie Maker cannot be used with Remote Desktop Connection or Terminal Services

Imagine, you’d like to use Windows Movie maker as known within Windows XP – whatever you reason should be. With Windows 7 and Windows XP mode you get an individual single instance of Windows XP inside of your Windows 7.

Starting Windows (XP) Movie Maker you may get following error message:

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Go to the settings of your VM and disable integration features WHILE THE VM IS RUNNING:

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Re-login if required and enjoy!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this tip. worked for me... now just need to get my device to be detected...

Anonymous said...

This works. Thanks!

One note : I did not have the "Tools" in the menu bar, so had to go back to

1. Windows 7 >Start > All Programs > Windows Virtual PC

2. click on Windows Virtual PC, this will bring up a Virtual Machines window

3. right click on a current running VM; mine was named "Windows XP Mode...", and pick "Settings"

4. On the left, click on "Integration Features", then de-check "Enable at startup"

5. You will need to re-start the VM for the settings to take effect

winmike said...

Also a suitabel solution: but it disables the integration features for this VM totally - it may be dangerous if you use the same machine.
Disableing for the next session is a flexible solution...