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Windows 10 & Microsoft Live Photo Gallery

I converted from 7 to 10 and live photo gallery works for me, but my wife converted from 8.1 to 10 and it is not available on the all programs list. If I try to install it, it says it is already installed. If I delete th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 23, 2015

Picture Library/Documents

All replies (2) MG Mayank Gupta10 replied on Microsoft Support Engineer Hi Vicki, Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I would like to know some information. Which browser do you use? Are you using in …

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MovieMaker

I have put together a 1:21 minute photo video with music. It was fairly easy, but very time consuming, and I've been working on it for awhile! The photos were scanned to an external hard drive. I disconnected the hard dr …

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Microsoft Movie Maker

I had a movie saved of a family member who has recently passed. It was saved in movie maker, it has not been renamed, moved or anything. Suddenly the file is missing. It played just fine in May. I don't know what happene …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2015

Windows Movie Maker – swearing (cut audio)

Hi there I have a video on Windows Movie Maker which contains someone swearing. I would like to either: Record a "bleep" sound over the swearing; orMute/delete the audio as the person swears (mute for about half a second …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2015

Windows Movie Maker – swearing (cut audio)

Hi there I have a video on Windows Movie Maker which contains someone swearing. I would like to either: Record a "bleep" sound over the swearing; orMute/delete the audio as the person swears (mute for about half a second …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2015

Windows DVD Maker clarity problem

Movie Maker 2012 installed on Windows 7 has good clarity when viewing the project, but when burning the DVD it is very grainy. Have tried adjusting width, height and bit rate of the Windows DVD burner but to no avail. An …

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DELETING A PROJECT FILE ???

HOW DO I DELETE (GET RID OF) A PROJECT FILE IN MY RECENT FILE LIST. I DELETED THE WIMP FILE FROM MY LIBRARY/PICTURES FOLDER BUT CAN'T GET RID OF THE PROJECT FILE IN MOVIE MAKER????

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2015

How do i access the full moviemaker?

I downloaded the moviemaker and I only received half the program, some of the features are blocked. How do i fix this? do i not have the full version?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 22, 2015

Inability to access Transition Tools on Top Ribbon

Hello I have been using Windows Movie Maker for a month with Windows 7 Home on my lap top. Of late when a 'Transition Tool' is used the Sub menu bar moves to the extreme left and becomes unaccesable. My attempt to reload …

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My video doubled in size!

I have a short 1:16 video that I edited and saved in Movie Maker as an mp4 file for use on YouTube. When I open the file to play it in Movie Maker, it is now 2:32; a full second copy of the video has been attached to the …

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Burning Movie Maker to DVD problems

Hello, I'm running Microsoft 7. I've made a 105KB movie hoping to burn to DVD for Granny to watch on TV at Christmas :) The error message from Windows DVD Maker is 'Cannot create the DVD The DVD cannot be burned because …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 21, 2015

Movie Maker and WebM

I used to be able to import WebM files into Windows Movie Maker. Now I can't! I need to fix this as I am not going to pay money for a better screen recorder/an online converter service. Please help! Also, Microsoft emplo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 21, 2015