UGH! I want my project back. I have LITERALLY been LABORING over a video for the last month, making sure to save it along the way at every other second so I wouldn't experience any problems; however, Microsoft has made sure I experience problems any way despite saving it along the way. 

Just yesterday, Windows Movie Maker stopped responding while I was working on my project and forced me out of the program entirely. Since then whenever I try reopening the saved file, the following message keeps popping up and it refuses to open the project I've been working on for the last month:  "Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker or be corrupted. Please select a different project file. (Errror: 0xCOOCEE01)." I know there's nothing wrong with the file type which is wlmp. And I never switched or messed with that so it's not that.  Whatever the case, this is a great outrage to me as I needed this project complete by this week. Instead of completing my project however, I've had to spend my precious time researching up on Microsoft and their bug to hurdle this problem. 

After spending an entire day researching on Microsoft and their bug as opposed to completing my project, I've learned that numerous other people have had this same issue because of the ineptness at Microsoft. Apparently, Microsoft did not prepare for the reasonable possibility that people might create large files and thus there's now a bug whenever there is a large file. As far as fast do-it-yourself solutions, I've seen nothing other than this with unclear instructions http://movies.blainesville.com/2012/05/how-to-fix-error-80004003-in-windows.html from step 1 stating copy something and not going into how to copy, where to copy, where to paste, etc.  For the most part all I can find on solutions is people just stating that users have to send their work to Microsoft staff and wait for them to fix it. I saw something about having to do this by signing for a Microsoft account and signing up for SkyDrive and being forced to learn all this stuff about some SkyDrive in order to put up my project and send it to Microsoft. However, because Microsoft recently updated this SkyDrive, I couldn't find all these instructions they were telling me to do in order to put up my project file. Ugh! Microsoft has taken me WAY off the beaten path with their bug. I need someone from Microsoft to revive this file and tell me what to do so that their bug doesn't continue to affect all my hard work.  I want to know if I can revive this file onto an entirely different program that isn't by Microsoft in any way, shape or form. Can it be brought up on a different video creation software because I don't want to experience these same issues.