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Movie maker

I have used movie maker when my grandchildren have visited and other projects. When I was on 7 there were no problems playing the DVD on the TV. Now that I have upgraded to Windows 10 the movie will only play on the comp …

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windows live movie maker

I have Windows 10 with Live Movie Maker. When I attempt to load my .mov onto it from "home-add videos" the frames show up on the right but not in the preview screen, which stays black. When I press play, the vertical lin …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 24, 2016

Burning DVD movie with Movie Maker

This is the QUESTION? Can DVD Burning be Speeded Up? mine takes a while. and Second "QUESTION"? how can you add mp4 to Movie Maker so it can Burn the Format (mp4) to DVD? .........And last! this is for those who think Mo …

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Movie maker help

Hello, I need to put blank space between videos and pictures. I've made a few movies but have not seen an easy way to do this. maybe that should be an obvious option to choose. All it needs to be is about 4 seconds of bl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 23, 2016

movie maker burn a dvd

Why did they remove the burn a dvd options when ive been using it for years, what can I do I make home videos for family after taking their pictures and now I can not.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 23, 2016

windows photo gallery

i have just reinstalled this program and it still shows all different logos among my pictures .How can i make this program load Just the pictures i take.I am using a laptop with windows 10.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 22, 2016

Saving tags from Photo Gallery

Hello, So, I have about 5,000 pictures on my computer and I wanted to organise this mess, so I got Photo Gallery from Windows live essentials 2012. As I'm creating tags and applying them to every picture, it's going to t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 22, 2016

Movie Maker Red Line

Hello, So i have googled this, ive asked the windows chat agents.. I have got no help. I never used to get this when i use movie maker but last week and from now on, on movie maker my video has a big red line down the mi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 21, 2016

Windows Essentials 2012 (?)

All I want to do is install Essentials so I can have Photo Gallery. So many times I've tried, only to run into "errors" and non working links, error codes and "we're working on it". I get Essentials, then I need SQL serv …

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Picture Duration

I'm working on something in Windows Movie Maker and I need a picture to have a duration of 8.50 but when I type it in the duration bar it adjusts to 9, which makes the project go a bit off. I don't know if it's because I …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 21, 2016

WLPG vs. WPG?

Running W10 64bit desktop which was upgraded from W8.1. I have read that there is both Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Live Photo Gallery. I do not know which of them is correct for my W10 OS (which is current with Win …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 21, 2016

windows movie maker for8.1

I am not able to download windows movie maker for windows 8.1 i downloaded the windows essentials but it's not working. please help as soon as possible.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 20, 2016

Its saying i am not logged in but I am!

I cannot upload a video from movie maker to facebook. It keeps giving me this error message: "Not logged in. You are not logged in. Please log in and try again." But I am logged in. When I go to facebook I do not see Mov …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 19, 2016

Movie Maker Error

Whenever I try to edit something, my video will randomly get the yellow triangle thing even if no other programs are open (And I never delete or move videos I'm in the middle of working on, as I prefer working start to f …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 19, 2016