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no video display

i have a windows 7 and non of the videos that i add to my project in the movie maker play, I just here the audio. Please help me!!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 3, 2016

Editing Text in Movie Maker

Hi Steve here, I've added text to my project in Movie Maker. I have 3 boxes to the right of the preview window, the 1st-An intro to the video/text; 2nd-The body of the text which is words to a song which I have scrolling …

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Windows Essentials 2012 Not Working

Hello, I have Windows 10 (Previously 8) and when I try to sign in to Windows Essentials 2012 or Windows Live Messenger, my email and password do not work. On Windows Live Messenger it gives me an error code: 8004882a. I …

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Windows Essentials 2012 Not Working

Hello, I have Windows 10 (Previously 8) and when I try to sign in to Windows Essentials 2012 or Windows Live Messenger, my email and password do not work. On Windows Live Messenger it gives me an error code: 8004882a. I …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 2, 2016

“Add videos and photos” black screen glitch

Hi, I've been using Movie Maker for my youtube channel and it's a great program to edit my gaming videos. I copied a video I recorded to my usb and put it onto my computer, and then load it into movie maker like any othe …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 1, 2016

windows live photo gallery is restarting.

Original Title: windows live photo gallery. when I use the windows live photo gallery then exit when finished and move to another program, it will restart by itself. Box shows with notation: windows live photo gallery is …

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Compress file for DVD

I have edited a movie file with Movie Maker 2012 but I still have a run time of 2:18 and a file size of 703,567KB. When I try to burn the movie to a DVD, it says the run time is too long. Can I compress the file to fit o …

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Can’t download Movie Maker :(

Hi, I'm trying to re-download Windows Movie Maker 12 on my Windows 10 laptop. But after I have reset my laptop, because I had a virus, It's not letting me download it. I seem to remember having the same problem downloadi …

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Pictures Missing from Slideshow

Developed Slide Show last month using movie maker. Opened up movie maker and 7 pictures missing from slide show. Used the fix icon and said it could not locate the picture. The picture number is the same as it is in pict …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2016

Photo Gallery won’t print.

Photo Gallery won't print. I get multiple (5) identical error messages each time I try to print that say "Your pictures can't be printed because this error occurred: " there is no further explanation, just an "OK" box.

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Photo Gallery won’t print.

Photo Gallery won't print. I get multiple (5) identical error messages each time I try to print that say "Your pictures can't be printed because this error occurred: " there is no further explanation, just an "OK" box.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2016

Programs not working

Downloaded 10 from 8.2. Worked a few days, then computer would not boot at all. Took it in to shop, cost to me to get it running again. Lost my Office, had to purchase again. Changed Outlook program after I had purchased …

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Movie Maker

When I try to run movie maker I get the error message containing bad image then the file name followed by is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the origi …

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Issues with Movie Maker

Original title:Movie Maker When I try to run movie maker I get the error message containing bad image then the file name followed by is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error. Try installing the pr …

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Movie Maker

I made a movie by using movie maker. But after I've saved it as Facebook format and played it again; only audio is coming not the pictures. Please help me I'm using this for first time. Thanks a lot.

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Video in Movie maker is good, In MP4 it’s different?

I've loaded a video in Movie Maker, edited it to the parts that I wanted and then I exported it into a MP4. There are parts that are missing in the MP4 and there are parts that are within the MP4 that aren't in the Movie …

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Unable to edit video in Movie Maker

Hello, I recently was working on project with Movie Maker and as I was making some last edits the program froze and became unresponsive, when I tried to reopen the file I was unable to edit my video. Also, my video that …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 29, 2016