Windows Essentials

Could not use Windows Movie Maker to sign into YouTube to upload videos.

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Archived post from November 30, 2016. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Nov 30, 2016

I have been using Windows Movie Maker for a couple of my videos now, and manually uploading them does take time. From start to finish, it usually takes about two hours for a five to ten minute video. I have tried to sign into YouTube now, but it leaves me with an error message saying "Invalid username or password. Please try again." I know that my password is correct and that my username has no fault, and when I have checked to make sure they are correct I have successfully signed into google and YouTube. I have seen a couple of posts, but I haven't been able to find the problem still. My WMM is up to date with the latest software, and I tried without my firewall and that failed. If you could post as soon as possible, that would be fantastic.

Post update: I have discovered how to fix this issue with the 2-password verification setup. Below are the steps that I took to bypass this problem:

1. I enabled 2-step verifcation

2. I went into app passwords. Link: https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords

3. Clicked "select app" and clicked other.

4. Created a name to describe what it is.

5. After the password is generated, I went into WLMM and entered my email as my username and the password that was generated.

This should work as It signed me in and I was able to use the interface afterwards.

I'm sorry to the admins to disturb them because of my stubbornness. I appreciate what you do and also what you have done.

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