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SpiceFX Compatibility with Windows 7

Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 7 is a complete re-write of the Movie Maker program by Microsoft. Windows Live Movie Maker needs more development work by Microsoft before it will become a very useful video editing tool -- or to match many of the key capabilities of prior Movie Maker versions. Windows Live Movie Maker lacks a timeline and also does not accept any add-ons or plug-ins currently (other than for social networking) which greatly limits its potential editing power. Fortunately, Windows Movie Maker 2.6 from Vista is still available from Microsoft, is more powerful than Windows Live Movie Maker, and can be manually installed into Windows 7 easily. SpiceFX 6 (or 5.0) will then install and work great. Note the same approach can be done with Movie Maker 6.0 from Vista (see bottom of this page).

Below are the three simple steps to install SpiceFX 6 (or 5.0) in your Windows 7 system. Altogether, they only take a few minutes. Note you can keep Windows Live Movie Maker on your computer, if you prefer. It is a completely separate application from any older version of Movie Maker and is not affected by the below.

1. Download Windows Movie Maker 2.6 from Microsoft.

2. Install Movie Maker. Follow Microsoft's instructions to install it, then take a few moments to check that Movie Maker 2.6 works fine in your Windows 7 system.

3. Now install our SpiceFX. Install our demo or purchased version. If you bought a SpiceFX upgrade from us, you will need to install your older SpiceFX version first -- so it will be seen by the SpiceFX upgrade installer. The older version will then be automatically removed by the upgrade.You are done! Enjoy!

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Prefer to use Movie Maker 6.0 instead of 2.6 in Windows 7 -- AND your computer has a dedicated video card, which Movie Maker 6.0 requires? That's fine too for SpiceFX. Movie Maker 2.6 and 6.0 are functionally very similar but 6.0 can be a little faster due to its video card support. The only downside is installing Movie Maker 6.0 takes more steps. Click here for our Movie Maker 6.0 in Windows 7 instructions.

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