Windows Movie Maker

How to uninstall Windows Movie Maker from your computer

This web page contains detailed information on how to remove Windows Movie Maker for Windows. It was developed for Windows by TopWin-Movie-Maker. More information on TopWin-Movie-Maker can be seen here. Windows Movie Maker is usually installed in the C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker folder, however this location may vary a lot depending on the user's decision when installing the application. C:\ProgramData\Caphyon\Advanced Installer\{475A08BC-6790-4906-9540-0B3BA337B776}\Windows Movie Maker.exe /i {475A08BC-6790-4906-9540-0B3BA337B776} AI_UNINSTALLER_CTP=1 is the full command line if you want to uninstall Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker's primary file takes around 94.44 KB (96704 bytes) and is named xmoviemaker.exe.

Windows Movie Maker is composed of the following executables which take 6.65 MB (6974007 bytes) on disk:

• browser.exe (227.94 KB)
• curl.exe (310.50 KB)
• ffmpeg.exe (301.50 KB)
• obs-ffmpeg-mux.exe (19.00 KB)
• QtWebEngineProcess.exe (19.00 KB)
• unins000.exe (1.17 MB)
• xconverter.exe (141.94 KB)
• xexport.exe (68.94 KB)
• xmoviemaker.exe (94.44 KB)
• xopenglcheck.exe (57.94 KB)
• xuploader.exe (129.44 KB)
• enc-amf-test64.exe (98.00 KB)
• get-graphics-offsets64.exe (119.00 KB)
• inject-helper64.exe (96.00 KB)
• PyDownload.exe (3.83 MB)

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The information on this page is only about version 8.0.7 of Windows Movie Maker. Click on the links below for other Windows Movie Maker versions:

• 8.0.8.8

Some files and registry entries are usually left behind when you remove Windows Movie Maker.

Directories left on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Movie Maker
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Movie Maker
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\TopWin-Movie-Maker

Usually, the following files are left on disk:

• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\app_id.ini
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\caption.db
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\caption_cust.db
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\config.db
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\coreVix.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\coreVix_convert.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\coreVix_editor.dll
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Badge\Best_Choice.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Badge\Coffe_Cafe.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Badge\Good_Time.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Badge\Happy.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Badge\Soccer.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji1.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji10.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji11.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji12.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji13.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji14.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji2.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji3.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji4.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji5.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji6.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji7.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji8.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\emoji\emoji9.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Apple.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Arrow 2.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Arrow 3.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Arrow.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Book 2.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Book.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Calculation.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Calculator.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Cap.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Clip.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Clock.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\cone.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\content 1.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Content 3.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Content 4.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Content 5.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Copy.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\E=mc2.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Game.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Glass.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Globe.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Graph.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\H2O.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Paper plane.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Pen.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Question mark.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Scale.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Test Tube 2.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Test Tube.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Triangle Scale.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Twinkling_Stars.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\Hand-painted\Umbrella.webm
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\images\arrow.png
• C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\AppData\element\images\arrowblue.png

Generally the following registry keys will not be uninstalled:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\96530F83636A3FC4DBED30C2C8523140
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B4EB76DD26E75124FA3A1F328A003A98
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\CB80A574097660945904B0B33A737B67
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows Movie Maker 8.0.7
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\TopWin-Movie-Maker

Use regedit.exe to remove the following additional registry values from the Windows Registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\96530F83636A3FC4DBED30C2C8523140\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\B4EB76DD26E75124FA3A1F328A003A98\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\CB80A574097660945904B0B33A737B67\ProductName
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders\C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker\

How to erase Windows Movie Maker from your PC with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Windows Movie Maker is an application offered by TopWin-Movie-Maker. Sometimes, computer users try to uninstall this application. Sometimes this is easier said than done because doing this manually requires some experience related to removing Windows applications by hand. The best QUICK way to uninstall Windows Movie Maker is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here are some detailed instructions about how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, add it. This is a good step because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is the best uninstaller and all around tool to clean your Windows PC.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by pressing the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to admire the program's interface and number of functions available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very good package of utilities.

3. Press the General Tools button


4. Click on the Uninstall Programs feature


5. A list of the applications existing on the computer will be made available to you

6. Scroll the list of applications until you find Windows Movie Maker or simply click the Search field and type in "Windows Movie Maker". The Windows Movie Maker application will be found automatically. Notice that when you select Windows Movie Maker in the list of programs, some data about the application is made available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). This explains the opinion other users have about Windows Movie Maker, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Opinions by other users - Press the Read reviews button.
• Details about the application you are about to remove, by pressing the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will remove Windows Movie Maker.


8. After removing Windows Movie Maker, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to start the cleanup. All the items that belong Windows Movie Maker that have been left behind will be found and you will be asked if you want to delete them. By removing Windows Movie Maker with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry entries, files or directories are left behind on your computer.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and able to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall Windows Movie Maker by TopWin-Movie-Maker from your PC, nor are we saying that Windows Movie Maker by TopWin-Movie-Maker is not a good application for your computer. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall Windows Movie Maker supposing you want to. The information above contains registry and disk entries that Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' PCs.