Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-24609882-20140318064016/@comment-24684900-20140412161109

-Momoiro-Saru- wrote: So, it turns out it wasn't my sound card causing issues last time...

(*drumroll*)

... it was frickin' Windows Live Movie Maker. WTF?!

Every time I open it now, it just murders ALL of my sound, even after closing out the program... nothing gets physically muted, and all my devices and services still remain enabled even after the fact. Just a little while ago, I couldn't even get my speaker setup to go back to quadraphonic, and kept telling me "Format is not supported by the device," nor would any other application play sound... they either did nothing or just threw me errors. Yet all of my sound devices were apparently working properly from the looks of my device manager. At least restarting the Windows Audio service fixes it after closing out WLMM, but the problem returns upon opening it no matter what. This has never happened before until these past few days... but now that I think back on it, I have just recently installed Windows updates the other day...

So either way I look at it: again, Microsoft, I must thank you profusely for ruining two things: If it wasn't for the fact that YT Video Editor won't let you upload your own audio and could also stand to have a few extra visuals added for flair, I'd probably bear with that rather than keep on messing around with this program just to get even more unhappy with how far it has fallen and how great it could have been... had Microsoft took the steps to allow the same type of open development they had for the older versions up to XP's, I'm sure by now it'd have a heck of a lot more to offer in terms of creative usage, like being able to put in multiple captions wherever and whenever you want to, more transitions... basically more flexibility in editing. Kind of wish they had made it more like PowerPoint in terms of functionality.
 * a program that used to be decent back in the day before you stopped releasing source for development kits for it and stripped most of its functionality it used to have. Now it's just a wad of crap and even more impractical to use compared to what it used to be.
 * For the THIRD update that has completely screwed around with an application I have installed that your company had a hand in making. Mucking up the interfaces for the Resource Manager and Event Viewer with some of those Internet Explorer updates was frustrating enough...

(TLDR; WLMM Sucks as usual, and Microsoft needs to fix their updates so they won't break their other apps/programs being used.) I opened WLMM exactly once and said nope. Download the vista version of WMM. If you had XP its exactly the same, except it cuts longer videos into clips which you can avoid by dragging the file directly on to the collection.