Hi all, for those of you still seeking a solution to movie maker crashing in windows 8 with the message 'movie maker stopped working'  or similar, I looked here and had no joy but I found the solution on a youtube video. It is a compatibility issue folks so for those of you still unable to do any editing or even start the program do a search on the charm bar for movie maker, then right click and select 'open file location' you should now have have a list of program's on the start menu, find the movie maker icon and right click and select properties, click compatibility. You will probably have to tick the box marked compatibility mode and then select the drop-down menu, mine was running in xp service pack3 mode (that's wrong) try selecting vista service pack2 (that worked for me) click apply then click ok. Now try movie maker and the problem shoud disappear. If not then you could try a different compatibility mode but this is what worked for me in windows 8 . (Not windows 8.1)  good luck and I hope this helps somebody else.