If the computer is locking up and blue screening, that's not something DVD Maker itself is really *capable* of doing. That would likely be a hardware failure that really really needs to be looked into.
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable...mess ages.htm
has some basic information on how to work with that. But if you go to a local computer shop and tell them you're hitting a blue screen, they should likely be able to direct you further.
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Speaking for myself only.
See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"bill" <bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:58BD68AB-1F8E-4874-8506-932E540DDFF8@microsoft.com...
> when burning a movie to dvd, if preview mode is viewed computer locks up,
> then screen goes black, but computer remains running, (had to unplug it to
> shut down). First time this happened blue screen came up and eventually had
> to wipe hard drive. second time(thought issue had been resolved), it simply
> rebooted. both times this happened when in dvd maker preview mode. If this
> has happened to any one or know why please help, I obviously wont be using
> dvd maker again unless this is figured out. Is Vista really this unstable.
> Mac is looking more and more appealing knowing microsoft released a product
> with so many issues.
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