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Photo Gallery does not work

After a mid-May Windows 10 update, my Photo Gallery stopped working on this one of my many computers. Unfortunately, this is my main working computer and I am a photographer. I have seen many similar post about this prob …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 13, 2016

Can’t connect to Facebook from Photo Gallery

When I select facebook and then connect - I get a message that I'm not signed in. Not signed in to what? How do I get around this as I've verified that I am signed in to Facebook and Photo Gallery?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 13, 2016

White box obscuring photos in photo gallery

After installing windows Essentials,Correctly,my photos come up with a white box obscuring the full photo- how do I fix this.I have followed the Change/Fix protocol several times already

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 12, 2016

2012 Windows Essential does not work with windows 10.

I went to a windows 10 class a few weeks ago and was impress with the 2012 Photo Gallery system that was on their desktop computers so I decide to download 2012 windows essential and only check the photo gallery/movie ma …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Installing Live Essentials

Hi. Any suggestions on how to simply install Live Essentials? I'm trying to get Movie Maker installed, on a super fast connection, and the icon spins while saying "preparing to install," then 15 minutes later says it can …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Photo fuse in Windows 10

How can I fuse photos? I just purchased a Lenovo ideapad 100S for travel since it is lightweight. It has Windows 10 with a new photos program. I was hoping to use the Photo Gallery fuse option, but I see no fuse in the P …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Movie Maker 2012 version – making DVDs

Saving Movie Maker projects to vid file now presents 2 options: MPEG4 or WMV. I've sometimes used one, sometimes the other, but now trying to burn a DVD (in DVD Maker) it says it can't code / decode some of the files. It …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Windows Movie Maker Low Quality

I've got a annoying issue with windows movie maker. When i edite videos the quality is very poor so if i try to make a snapshot it will look awfull comparing to the rest of the video. It's very strange because my footage …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Moviemaker Video window Controls

I've just installed Moviemaker 2016. I loaded a video to play around, and I see that in the playback window there are only 3 buttons, to play the clip, and to skip to the previous or next frame. There is no pause button, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

movie maker loop

I do not see any loop icon for clicking it to view a video one time. Where is it?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

movie maker loop

I do not see any loop icon for clicking it to view a video one time. Where is it?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2016

Photo Gallery in Windows 10

When I select slideshow in photo gallery, it cycles photos at about 3-4 seconds. How can I adjust it to a slower rate?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 10, 2016

movie maker

I have created a movie with captions that appear under the clips on the right hand side of the display. When I re-opened the project, the clips show no captions, even though they are still there. Is this because the clip …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 9, 2016

Windows Photo Gallery

Have use MS Digital Image Suite for year and was very satisfied with it. I don't need a lot of the junk included in today photo programs. Don't want the program to organize or import ever photo on my pc, don't want it to …

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Queries about Windows Photo Gallery

Original title: Windows Photo Gallery Have use MS Digital Image Suite for year and was very satisfied with it. I don't need a lot of the junk included in today photo programs. Don't want the program to organize or import …

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Error code 0x8007007e

When i try to open windows movie maker on my windows 10 device i get this a message saying : WLXPhotoLibraryMain.dll loaded but the program could not start. Then the errror code. Please help me or if you know any other e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 9, 2016