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Photo Gallery

my pictures have stopped being arranged by date, they will only display by folder option - this happened out of the blue! any help will do!

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Photo Gallery

my pictures have stopped being arranged by date, they will only display by folder option - this happened out of the blue! any help will do!

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

Photo Gallery

All pictures have disappeared from the gallery. This is second time has happened. First time just entered card had in my camera and forgot the older pictures. Today, happened again. I have also downloaded a photo site, P …

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All pictures have disappeared from the gallery

All pictures have disappeared from the gallery. This is second time has happened. First time just entered card had in my camera and forgot the older pictures. Today, happened again. I have also downloaded a photo site, P …

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Movie Maker Won’t Loop My Movie

Hi. I created a short animation and added music. I'd like it to loop continually when played, but I can't find any way to make it do this. There's nothing in any of the app's menus to enable looping. Please advise how I …

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Moviemaker on windows 10 (again!)

I have been searching these posts for days, and following various instructions about uninstalling and re-installing Essentials. Nothing seems to work. I can bring up the Moviemaker programme, add videos, but not run them …

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Issue with audio, when playing a video in Movie Maker.

I have been searching these posts for days, and following various instructions about uninstalling and re-installing Essentials. Nothing seems to work. I can bring up the Moviemaker programme, add videos, but not run them …

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WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER WON’T SAVE MOVIE

I loaded microsoft movie maker on windows 7. All works well but when I go back to look at the project all I see is the yellow exclamation mark...cannot find file. But when I put the storage card back in the PC slot... al …

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Some videos in my project will not play

Windows 10/1511, Movie Maker 2012 just updated. I've begun my movie with static image with text, added 15 or more clips with extension .mts, edited and inserted transitions. Played and saved project all in same folder. I …

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Windows movie maker installation problem

I am trying to install windows movie maker from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/get-movie-maker-download But, it's not getting installed in my pc. Error - "Restart your computer" Even after restarting device f …

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WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

I WAS NEARLY FINISHED EDITING AN 1HR MOVIE & MOVIE MAKER SAID IT HAD AN ERROR & NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN. WHEN I REOPENED MOVIE MAKER & TRIED TO OPEN THE PROJECT, IT NOW SAYS IT CANT FIND THE SPECIFIED FILE & IT MAY HAVE CORR …

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Movie Maker 2012

I recently downloaded Windows 10. Movie Maker came up as 2011 so I downloaded MM 2012. Is this the correct version to use with Windows 10? I used clear pictures in making a movie and it plays them looking pixellated???

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Voice Recorder

I recorded a meeting on my phone and I'm trying to listen to on my computer. I have downloaded it to my computer and it wants to use my movie maker however, my movie maker will not allow me to listen to it. I have a Vist …

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Voice Recorder

I recorded a meeting on my phone and I'm trying to listen to on my computer. I have downloaded it to my computer and it wants to use my movie maker however, my movie maker will not allow me to listen to it. I have a Vist …

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Can’t locate or delete pictures

I have 184 photos(?) that show up in Photo Gallery that do not seem to exist. If I try to delete one, I get "The files you have selected might be read-only or in a location that isn't available." I have a NAS Hard Drive. …

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Windows Live Movie Maker Video Error

No AVI or MP4 Files work in Windows Live Movie Maker. They are black with NO sound. I tried adding videos made a couple of months ago back into windows live movie maker, and it says they are corrupted or in a format wind …

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Photo Gallery Has Stopped Working

I have uninstalled Photo Gallery version 16.4.3528.0331 twice and reinstalled it twice with the same problem in all three installations. Oddly, the last two reinstalls placed the Photo Gallery tile in the same place on m …

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Adding a title before the movie starts

When I try to insert a title before a movie all I get shown is a black frame. This has only just happened. Before, if I saved the movie to, say, Photo Gallery, the opening title frame would be displayed. This was very co …

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Adding a title before the movie starts

When I try to insert a title before a movie all I get shown is a black frame. This has only just happened. Before, if I saved the movie to, say, Photo Gallery, the opening title frame would be displayed. This was very co …

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