Photostory 3 and Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7
If you have just discovered that these two applications are no longer working or availabe in the Windows 7 world DONT PANIC. These tools are very important in the education arena as they are great concept developers for helping people to move on to more powerful software. Photostory is an educators dream bit of software and Windows movie maker is a great intro to track based editing and can also be used for animation. The new Windows Essential Movie maker is a dumbed down bit of rubbish.
With the advent of Windows 7 the Vista download of Photostory no longer works.. the solution? Look for the XP version.
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The same trick works for Movie Maker as the 2.1 version for XP is still available…
UPDATE
As you can see from the comments there appears to be some issues around this and some people are reporting problems. After some playing with different setups I think that this trick WORKS with Windows 7 x64 but does NOT WORK with x32 bit versions of Windows 7. If anyone can confirm or deny this let me know.
An alternative installation of Photostory involved the use of XP mode and again this does work but you need to at least have Windows 7 Professional or above.
UPDATE 2
It looks like the OS check has now been dropped on the latest version I down loaded.
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about 2 years ago
Photostory3 didn’t work on my upgrade from vista to win7. It said it was not compatible with this version. I uninstalled it, downloaded a fresh copy and win7 refuses to install it saying again that it is incompatible…
about 2 years ago
I have spoken to several people who also state that Photostory for XP now does not work on windows 7. I can only assume that Microsoft have updated the binary since I tested this!!
there is another way.. if you have Windows 7 professional or higher Photostory will install under XP Mode.
I will upload the version i have just used on this Win 7 machine which installed fine and test it on some other machines in the morning. Would be grateful if someone could test it too.