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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 …

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Pats

Photo Gallery seems to be working on Windows 10 in most ways as it did for me on Windows 8 except as soon as I try to run a slideshow the Tiles Start screen appears. Anybody have any suggestions?

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Pats

Photo Gallery seems to be working on Windows 10 in most ways as it did for me on Windows 8 except as soon as I try to run a slideshow the Tiles Start screen appears. Anybody have any suggestions?

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Error at installing windows essentials

Hi, when i want to install windows essentials 2012 after the install it is saying that "Another program is preventing windows essentials from installing" , i will let a photo below: http://prntscr.com/92fobh

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Error at installing windows essentials

Hi, when i want to install windows essentials 2012 after the install it is saying that "Another program is preventing windows essentials from installing" , i will let a photo below: http://prntscr.com/92fobh

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Window Movie Maker

I have windows 7 and I have created a move in Window Movie Maker 12. I am not able to burn a DVD. How can I burn a DVD?

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Error OxC945002

I am currently using Windows Essential Movie Maker 2012 and Win 10. I have ran a repair on Moviemaker, updated windows drivers and still get this error when making movies. Any ideas for fixes?

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Unable to download Windows Essential

Hello Microsoft Community. I am hoping that some can help me with this little issue I am having (Unable to download Windows Essential). Recently did a reinstall of Windows 7 on my computer. Reason was that the upgrade in …

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Problems with Movie Maker on Windows 10

I have a new computer with Windows 10 and installed Movie Maker. I keep getting messages that movie maker has stopped working. Also the captions move around and decrease in length of time of display. How do I fix these p …

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Problems with Movie Maker on Windows 10

I have a new computer with Windows 10 and installed Movie Maker. I keep getting messages that movie maker has stopped working. Also the captions move around and decrease in length of time of display. How do I fix these p …

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Windows Movie Maker audio

I chose 'fit to music' for my project and now the duration of each clip is much too long. How do I 'un-fit' the audio? Or alternatively, remove the audio and start over?

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Photo gallery 10 HELP

I cannot find out how to get a navigation panel to appear in PG 10 I just installed. All my 41,000+ photos appear but I just want the folders they are in to appear just like in File Explorer. How do I do it?

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Whet file types can windows movie maker work with

I have some .vob files that I want to edit with windows movie maker but they will not load apparently because the file type is not recognized or movie maker does not recognize it. What can I do to change .vob files to to …

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Windows Movie Maker Video Files

For some reason I cant upload a video file to windows movie maker it just appears with a little yellow triangle with an exclamation point. It is a .avi file and I've read that it should be able to read that I don't under …

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Windows Movie Maker – Unable to Save Movie File

I am running Window 7, Windows Movie Maker 2.6 I recorded video/audio using the Snagit program, which saves as .mp4 files. I then used Zamzar to convert the .mp4 files to .wmv files, to be able to import into Movie Maker …

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will not import mv4 file

I downloaded a movie (.m4v file) (size 4.8 GB) from iTunes and wish to clip out a couple of scenes, but the file does not import or open. When opening, only shows a photo of the first frame and nothing else. When importi …

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Adding more than one audio file

I have about 100 pictures that I have downloaded to Movie Maker. I am wanting to play 5 audio files, or about 20 pictures for each song. Is this possible with Movie Maker? If so, can you give me step by step instructions …

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Experiencing problems while Downloading applications

I have got a new laptop pre-loaded with Windows10 and I use a proxy server for internet. While downloading applications from store I am getting the error code 0x800704CF. Also while trying to install Windows Movie Maker …

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Windows live email

Windows live emails are disappearing from my folders. Folders are still there, but certain emails are gone. windows 10 operating system. windows live essentials Thanks for your help Blue

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