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Photo gallery stops working

Original title: Photo gallery stops Windows live photo gallery started giving notices in August that it had stopped working and would try to resolve the problem and then it just quits. I spent three and a half hours on t …

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Photo gallery stops

Windows live photo gallery started giving notices in August that it had stopped working and would try to resolve the problem and then it just quits. I spent three and a half hours on the phone with Help for this and othe …

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windows movie maker crashes

Recently i have downloaded the windows movie maker (windows essential 12) then i started making edits to my video...when i save it,it crashes...sometimes when i add music , it crashes...i tried saving without adding musi …

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Trouble with MovieMaker Narration

I'm trying to ad narration to an .AVI video file in MovieMaker. The recording seems to work because it asks for a filename to "Save As". A bar appears below the movie frames, but when I play back the movie the narration …

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Editing Photos saved in Dropbox using Photo Gallery

I also am having the same issue attempting to edit pictures in Dropbox using Photo Gallery. Until recently you could select a photo anywhere on your computer including Dropbox then double click to open with Photo Gallery …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 14, 2015

IMOVIE

I have IMOVIE files that I want to use in Movie Maker. They play on Media Center but not MM. What do I need to do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 13, 2015

Time-lapse issues in Windows Movie Maker 2012

I am trying to create a time-lapse video with photos shot from a tripod every 30 seconds, all with the same settings. When I import the sequence of photos some of them import to fill up the whole screen and some of them …

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Windows Movie Maker

I was editing on Windows Movie Maker when the videos suddenly disappeared. Then I saved it and closed the Movie Maker and tried to open the file the videos I was editing do not appear. What do I do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 13, 2015

Movie Maker can´t open saved project file

Hi everyone, I was editing a video in windows movie maker and saved it every 2 Minutes just to make sure. Then before closing the project I saved it again. Then when I wanted to open the project file again to keep on wor …

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Photo Gallery Occupies Entire Screen

I like the Slide Show dimension of Photo Gallery. Unfortunately, when I run it the entire screen is occupied by my pictures. Is there any way to create a window for my Slide Show, and still run and work on Excel, Word do …

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Movie Maker porblem

Im new to the whole asking the community thing, but i searched for about 2 hours and found nothing about this. Anyways, i haven't used movie maker much, but i wanted to make a video for youtube where you put gunshots ove …

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no dvd burn icon in WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

No Dvd burn icon in Windows movie maker. I have a hp pavilion dv series. I've done this 100s of times but not on this laptop. Oh, btw, Ive followed the correct instructions on how to do it but the icon is not there. Help …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2015

Problem downloading WMM 12

Hi, I'm trying to add Windows Movie Maker 12 to my new Windows 10 Laptop. On the Microsoft page it says I can and it's 'included in the Microsoft Essentials 2012 program suite' but when I try to run the download exe, I a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2015

Photo Gallery

How do I back up my photos from Photo Gallery onto an external hard drive using Windows 7? Also, will it save all my tags?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2015