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Can I still access my old photos?

Hi I've been searching through loads of posts this morning to see if I can get back the photos that were in my windows live gallery - I've just successfully got windows live gallery but all the photos I had there are not …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 5, 2019

compare Movie Maker programs

Ms is weaning us from the stable version to several other versions of Movie Maker. I would rather work off-line. I need to crop one of my videos to fit a display. Has/can someone compare the various version features & is …

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

Will we get a paint 3d model animator?

I'm a beginner artist who's just getting into 3d animation, but I mainly do 2d hand drawn frame by frame animation. I think it would be more engaging if there was a paint 3d animation maker for the creations we make on t …

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

Movie Maker Audio

Burned a dvd after using movie maker. First saved movie as DVD with sound, using 128 kbps, 48 kHz, stereo. Believe these are the settings I used in the past, unless a recent microsoft update changed them. Movie is saved …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 24, 2019

Movie Maker?

I have heard Windows does not offer Movie Maker in Win 10. However, I also hear there are ways to download it. Can someone provide a safe workable link? Dan

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 24, 2019

Windows Movie Maker

I use Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7. This time I uploaded pictures and music, saved it, then reloaded it in order to edit. However, although it reloaded, it does not move along and appears greyed out. Any suggestions …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 22, 2019

No windows live photo gallery with my new 2019 PC?

I bought new pc yesterday and now discovered icant open or edit pictures in photo galley. There is nowoption to make it the default program to open pictures. My old pc running windows 10 still works and still lets me vie …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 14, 2019

windows live photo gallery

cannot open or edit any photos on computer with windows live photo gallery- have window 7 operating system...what can we do to get these photos to open?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 13, 2019

Windows Live Photo Gallery

MICROSOFT:: Please help me get Windows Live Photo Gallery back. I had to reset my Windows 10 64bit computer and lost Photo Gallery :-( I have tried and tried to use the new Windows Photo program but it is just terrible! …

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

Video quality on saved videos

I am saving as 1080 MP4 and then WLMP and the video quality is not nearly as clear as when I watch in movie maker. How can I save a movie so it looks just like the video as it streams in movie maker?

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

Windows Movie Maker always changes my video resolution

Can anyone help me ? I'm a fan of Windows Movie Maker, and I have been using it since 5 years ago. I got this problem: I record my screen using OBS with the output MP4 (1280x800), and it's HD. When I add the video into t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2019

Video format not recognized by My Movie Maker

I had my family 8mm movies converted to digital form. The were supplied on a DVD. I want to edit some of the clips but My Movie Maker does not recognize the format of the video. How can I convert them to a recognizable f …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Hi, I've used Windows Movie maker to edit a film, but it malfunctions after downloading. It's sort of stammering. However, this doesn't happen in the program itself. I've used MTS-files for the film. Is there someone who …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 27, 2019

movie maker will not save

so i and doing a ait class were i have to use movie maker and it will not let me saver it what i did so far is i recorded a 5 minet video on my Xbox one s then i saved it to my one drive , then i saved it to my school co …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 21, 2019

How Do I Use Movie Maker?

I have just downloaded the October Update for Windows 10 and am horrified to find that in the process Movie Maker 6 has been deleted from my computer. I cannot make head nor tale of the new Movie Maker. Where is the Time …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 20, 2019