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photo gallery

When I am selecting pictures to print in photo gallery, the print button disappears. Why is this? It doesn't happen all the time. It's very random. Sometimes I just want to print 1 pic, or maybe 4 and then it just disapp …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 19, 2019

Movie Maker Videos Keep Getting Corrupted

I've used movie maker over the last 8 years because its simple and allows me to get the job done. However just lately the program keeps saying "the file might be corrupted or in a format that movie maker doesn't recogniz …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 18, 2019

Where are MovieMaker Pro files saved?

I just finished a project on Movie Maker Pro and when I clicked Save Project a message came up that said Your Project Has Been Saved, but I don't know WHERE it is saved. I can't find the file anywhere on my computer.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 16, 2019

WMM 2.6

I have been using Windows Movie Maker 2.6 on my Windows 7 system for years and have been very happy. Now when I use it I can create my Project (which I always limit to about 34 minutes) but when I try to save as a Movie …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 8, 2019

Windows Photo Gallery & Windows Movie Maker

I have a Windows 10 laptop PC. I HAD both Widows Photo Gallery & Windows Movie Maker on it my current pc. I spent a tremendous amount of "wasted" time with Microsoft tech agents, Windows 365 agents during which they had …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 6, 2019

Download And Install WLE

Hello! I needed to edit videos but i dont know what programs are free. And i was like "Windows Live Essentials!" But its discontinued. So can someone tell how can i download it? And its not only Movie Maker, I need the w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 3, 2019

Windows Live Movie Maker

All pictures, video, and even help screens are distorted. Right side of screen is rotated down by 90 degrees!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 25, 2019

Movie Maker Question…

Hi, When I was working on my slideshow, all of a sudden when a slide was transitioning, the music would skip a beat. I have been working on this show for awhile and this has never happened before. Thanks, Bill

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 19, 2019

LiveMail2011

LiveMail2011 will not start on windows 7 I have tried 'repair windows live essentials' to no effect and going back to a restore point when it was working but that hasn't helped either. I tried microsoft support but livem …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 16, 2019

Movie Maker Windows 7

I created a video on Movie Maker but when I tried to put a title for the movie, it replaced the first 7 seconds of the video with the title. How do I move the video files forward so the title happens and then the video s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 15, 2019

Can’t install windows live essentials

Can't install windows live essentials . Microsoft says it stopped in 2012 but I hear it's still possible. Can someone help me !!!! My email address is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. Thanks Much !!!!!!!!!!!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 11, 2019

Win Movie Maker 10 – Music Fade Out Choppy

The music fade-out is very choppy and it does not matter what time length nor music file format I use. This happens in the video preview of the project and the final exported version. There are no other user applications …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 7, 2019

WIndows Photo Gallery

I have loads of photos I added to my my windows gallery. But I cannot share onto my facebook. What is the point them of keeping them there? I see a previous tech's answer to sign into my microsoft account and click on sh …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 4, 2019

seaching for people

how do I get Photo Gallery to search for pictures (people) in new folders I have added

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 30, 2019