As the title implies my problem is that every time I try to save a video project created with WLMM / WMM, during the save process my Computer shuts down totally.

I started using Windows Live Movie Maker Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3538.0513) about one week ago to create a simple slide show video comprising 11 photos in jpg-format (only 1.5 MB in total - for all 11 photos!) plus intro & outro and backing music (3.2 MB, wma-format). Creating the Project presented no problems - and is quite fun!  However every time I tried to save the video with the recommended (i.e. high quality) settings my Computer shut down! The shut down can happen at any progress point - even at 99% several times!

The only success I had in saving the Project was to save it in the "For Computer" setting (resulting file size 66.4 MB), however the much lower quality is simply not satisfactory!

Today (Monday 19th August 2013) I downloaded Windows Movie Maker Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) but the Computer shut down problem is still there.

I am using Windows 7 Professional on a Toshiba Satellite PRO L770-12R Notebook with 8 GB RAM, Intel Core i5-2430 CPU @ 2.4GHz Processor, NVIDIA Geforce GT 525M Graphic Card, 698 GB hard disk space (219 of 349 GB free on C: and 335 of 349 GB free on D:), DirectX 10, 64 Bit.

I enjoy creating Projects using WMM and it offers exactly the features I need at this time but if I cannot save the video it makes no sense using the program further! Any help would be greatly appreciated.