How to edit. MOV files in Windows Movie Maker?

My Nikon L105 records 720p HD video in the. MOV format and I've been trying to figure out how to edit them using Windows Movie Maker for XP. I've researched all over and people keep saying to convert it but I'm against doing that because I've already tried using a couple different programs and the resulting video was badly pixelated and looked horrible. It's not something I would want to upload to YouTube, which is the reason why I'm trying to edit these, so I can post them.

It seems converting video files causes a serious loss of quality so that option is out, that is unless someone can suggest a really good converter that won't cause pixelation. But I've read something about installing codecs to allow Movie Maker to edit. MOV files. If that is true, where can I find such a codec? I'm on an older HP m7167c desktop with XP. If the codec thing is true, does that only apply to the Windows 7 version of Movie Maker or is there a codec for XP?

Btw, I've called Nikon about this, they told me to use the ViewNX 2 program, which I did, but I do not like that program at all. Just thought to include that in case anyone suggested it.

All help regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.

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