This is a recent problem. I will put a WMV file in DVD Maker, set the title and menu appearance, but when I press "burn" the little "encoding...0%" box comes up and quickly stops working. The next thing to pop up says, "Windows DVD Maker has stopped working" and I have to close the program.

I checked the Event Viewer, and it said this about the crash:

"Faulting application DVDMaker.exe, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e02385, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000096, fault offset 0x03c32a3b, process id 0xfa4, application start time 0x01cba89a73e6699a"

Has anyone had this problem or know a fix?

PS: Another recent development is that I no longer have the ability to import .AVI's into DVD Maker or Movie Maker. And I have also been experiencing problems with Windows Explorer crapping out. No scans show viruses, so I think it must be something wrong with Windows itself.