win 7 guest osx host windows movie maker ???

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andy johnson
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win 7 guest osx host windows movie maker ???

Post by andy johnson »

hello people! pleaes be gentle with me as am a complete novice to this stuff ! basicly im trying to run windows movie maker on windows 7 guest /osx (snow leopard) host i get a message that movie maker wont run because my system dosent meet the requirements etc , ive checked thtough and i think it does but it still wont run , is it something to do with direct x ? what ever that is ? is this a common problem ?
any help would be appreciated
thanks
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Re: win 7 guest osx host windows movie maker ???

Post by mpack »

andy johnson wrote:is it something to do with direct x ?
Yes.

Search these forums about enabling 2D and 3D graphics acceleration (basically, you have to enable these options in the VM settings, then installs the guest additions in Windows safe mode).
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