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Importing Photos from camera “card”

The icon for Photo Gallery disappeared from my opening screen. I reinstalled Windows Essentials. Nothing! This happens repeatedly. If, by some miracle, the Photo Gallery icon appears, things work well....until the day th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

Importing Photos from camera “card”

The icon for Photo Gallery disappeared from my opening screen. I reinstalled Windows Essentials. Nothing! This happens repeatedly. If, by some miracle, the Photo Gallery icon appears, things work well....until the day th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

Error code 0x080070057 Opening Photo Gallery

A month ago I opened Photo Gallery and go this message Photo Gallery encountered an error and can't start. Error code:0x80070057. I am running windows 7 Pro on Dell Precision M4800. I have uninstalled and re-installed Wi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

Error code 0x080070057 Opening Photo Gallery

A month ago I opened Photo Gallery and go this message Photo Gallery encountered an error and can't start. Error code:0x80070057. I am running windows 7 Pro on Dell Precision M4800. I have uninstalled and re-installed Wi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

Cant find or even install Windows Movie Maker

i tryed to find movie maker in the menu but i couldnt find it.. I downloaded WIndows Essentials several times but it shows that i have movie maker installed already. i tried to uninstall windows essentials and all its st …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

Cant find or even install Windows Movie Maker

i tryed to find movie maker in the menu but i couldnt find it.. I downloaded WIndows Essentials several times but it shows that i have movie maker installed already. i tried to uninstall windows essentials and all its st …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2015

movie maker seems different when I last used it in May

The main screen that I always worked from, to add captions to, is very small. I cannot see the text clearly, to see if there are errors. I am referrring to the screen to the left of where the "movie" clips actually are, …

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Windows Movie Maker Help

I have a YouTube channel, and I am trying to make it a lot better by actually editing my videos. I am trying to at least make a channel trailer by stringing multiple recorded videos that I have. However, every time I try …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 27, 2015

WINDOWS 10

LOOKING FOR WINDOWS ESSENTIALS FOR WINDOWS 10 DOES IT EXSIST OR SHOULD I FORGET IT ESPECIALLY WANT MOVIE MAKER

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 25, 2015

Windows Movie Maker for Windows 10

Can anyone tell me how to burn a disc once I've put together a slide etc? I have tried to follow the instruction's but it seems that when I save the project it starts to load up into whatever. I wait patiently for the gr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 25, 2015

Spliting problem windows movie maker

ok I just edited this hour long video and I need to split this last part of it but what happened was that the story board completely disappeared and nothing was there. I restarted my computer and everything the splitting …

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Movuie Maker

I have Movie Maker 8.1 on windows ten and all seemed well until I needed to turn a couple of pictures around nothing happens What am I not doing right?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 25, 2015

Duplicate Photos

When I export a photo to My Heritage Family tree from my Live Photo Gallery site it comes back with multiple copies into the Photo Gallery - if I delete them manually except for one copy I still loose it off my Heritage …

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Windows Essentials Mail password problem.

cannot change password in Windows Essentials Mail application. When I open the mail program a box opens (it has the old password ) I type the new password in the box a tick remember and all new e-mails are downloaded. Bu …

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Window Photo Gallery

Windows 10, Acer Aspire M3450 64 bit 400ghz RAM: Windows Photo Gallery : I wonder is there any way of NOT shrinking my photos so much if I have to rotate them. Really getting tired of taking a photograph of something big …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2015

Windows Movie Maker Grainy Videos?

I've tried editing captured gameplay and saved the videos for uploading on YouTube, but after WMM saves, the video gets all grainy with annoyingly large pixel-like boxes. The original captured videos are already at a hig …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2015

i cannot get audio on moviemaker

I have no audio on movie maker or media player. Tried to download basic version of k lite codec no result in fact I cannot even tell if it has installed or not can t find it on my list of programs. Help. In the meantime …

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photo gallery

photo gallery is not working it shows error c000009c can you help us

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Movie maker!

Ridiculous! NOTHING should be this hard! I was able to fix the one loan picture that it thought wasn't usable by rebooting the laptop. Next up, unable to convert the video to a .wmv or .mp4. Kept getting a memory error. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 24, 2015