If the weather is right, Windows Live Movie Maker is a fair video editor with some basic editing tools; it's a free offering from Microsoft in their Windows Live suite of applications.
Oddly enough, Windows Live Movie Maker doesn't come with an online help manual, a localized help menu or a support forum you can search, that'll yield any good results.
And while it seems simple enough, the question of combining, copy/cut and paste videos or splicing videos together seem to be a reocurring question in the Windows Live Movie Maker forum. So, I decide to generate something for them…