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Photo Gallery has stopped working

I started getting this message about a month ago. I haven't had time to work on it, and figured it would be an easy fix, until last week and now, if I had any hair, I would be pulling it out. I am running Windows 10, whi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 16, 2015

Photo Gallery does not respond

When starting this with Windows 10 It goes straight into a mode of not responding. Sometimes it complains about codec with a particular photo which is just a .jpg file. I've run repair and have uninstalled and re-install …

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Photo Gallery Live

When starting this with Windows 10 It goes straight into a mode of not responding. Sometimes it complains about codec with a particular photo which is just a .jpg file. I've run repair and have uninstalled and re-install …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 16, 2015

Cannot transfer pictures from iphone to photo gallery

I am trying to download pictures from my I phone to photo gallery. the PC recognizes the phone and the pictures in the phone but when I try to download to photo gallery I get a ERROR message saying ACCESS DENIED. How do …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 16, 2015

photo gallery

I am trying to download pictures from my I phone to photo gallery. the PC recognizes the phone and the pictures in the phone but when I try to download to photo gallery I get a ERROR message saying ACCESS DENIED. How do …

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Windows Movie Maker

I just purchased a new computer with windows 10 and the version of windows movie maker is different from my windows XP version. I would like to use the old version. Is it possible to use the old version on windows 10.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 15, 2015

Editing photo size in Photo Gallery

All I want to do is increase the size of a downloaded photo from 275 pixels to 400+ pixels so I can use in Facebook. When I follow path edit>properties>resize nothing happens. A copy of the picture is created but is the …

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Photo Gallery won’t print

Hello, I have always used Photo Gallery to edit and print photos. However, now when I try to print photos from there, it gives me the message " Your pictures can't be printed because of the following error:" and then it …

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Burn movie to dvd prompt

I am not getting the burn to DVD prompt in my windows movie maker. Can someone help me with this? Thanks.

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1st time movie maker live

First time user of movie maker live, I can import video but still shows black screen with no sound any suggestions

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Photo Gallery won’t run

When I try to view a picture Photo Gallery starts to load and than quits and the program shuts down this also happens with Movie Maker. It had run previously but after a crash I have reinstalled everything but It will no …

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Win 7 Photo Gallery import behavior

Photo Gallery wants to import *.tts files from my Android. I don't want the tts, just the jpg's and the movies. How can I configure Photo Gallery to do what I want? Thanks everyone, Terry

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 15, 2015

Windows Live Photo Gallery

I accidentally made it so when I download a photo it goes into the Windows Live Photo Gallery and that screen comes up with the photo in it where you can email it or whatever. It used to just go into my documents. I just …

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Can I actually get Movie Maker to work on Windows 10?

Windows 10!!! My Current PC has went through 2 Upgrades, Two Downgrades, Multiple Factory Restores (Though only one of them was for Windows 10). These were the issues caused by Windows 10. Out of the few times I Upgraded …

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

Movie Maker has stopped working

The moment i started to edit a video, the program stops responding and then this pops up. "Movie Maker has stopped working. Then i have to closed the program or the project. And it notify as "Windows will close the progr …

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

duplicate photos piling up

I currently am using two different bridge cameras both with their own SDHC 32 GB memory cards. I don't delete my pictures from these cards, I ultimately store them when full as a kind of backup. Then fit a new blank card …

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Movie Maker Performance

Occasionally, I experience an "ear ****" sound whenever I try to play audio and/or video using Windows Movie Maker; this is on my new laptop that did not come with Windows Essentials pre-installed. When I had Windows Ess …

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