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How do I just save a freakin picture??

This is absolutely ridiculous! Someone sent me a picture in my email and all I want to do is save the damn thing to my computer in windows 10. Why am I having to surf the web download special programs and still not able …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 8, 2015

The previous Windows Live Photo Gallery

I want to use the 'old' version of Windows Live Photo Gallery. Every link in all comments regarding this are no longer valid. The Gallery I want, I think it is 20099 or 2010. Much better to use in a myriad of ways.... st …

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The previous Windows Live Photo Gallery

I want to use the 'old' version of Windows Live Photo Gallery. Every link in all comments regarding this are no longer valid. The Gallery I want, I think it is 20099 or 2010. Much better to use in a myriad of ways.... st …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 8, 2015

Can’t remove include folder in photo gallery.

I'm having trouble in removing include folders to Windows Photo Gallery. The folder remains there even after I delete the all related file from this path. WindowsUsers%Username%AppDataLocalMicrosoft Windows Live Photo Ga …

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Movie Maker isn’t working well on windows 10

When I browse my files and select one I don't get the video. All I seem to get is the sound wave. I can play back the sound and add videos but still no picture. I still have Windows Live Movie Maker on my laptop with win …

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windows 10 photo gallery

I cannot share or email my photos from windows 10 photo gallery. I get a message that this app is not working at this time.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 7, 2015

Windows movie maker download problem

I have windows 8.1 on my HP Envy laptop and am trying to load windows movie maker for windows 8.1 and I get the preparing to install box up but it goes no further. Have tried this many times without success. Has anyone e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 7, 2015

Anyone know of a script for tagging?

We have a bunch of images in a complex folder structure and would like to tag the images with the names of each folder in the file's location string. It would be tedious to do them one by one. Does anyone know of a scrip …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 6, 2015

movie maker non funziona correttamente

Da quando ho installato, pochi giorni fa, windows 10 ( come aggiornamento di windows 7) movie maker non mi apre più l'anteprima file schermo intero su nessuno dei filmati che ho. Ho provato a disinstallare windows essent …

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Bulk posting of drafts in Windows Live Writer

I can think of a couple situations where I would want to bulk post all my drafts. Easy example is that I am on a cruise and writing my blog several times a day updating what i am doing. When I reach shore or at least an …

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OnCatalogResult: 0x80072ee6 An Unknown error occurred

Trying to install Windows Live Essentials (specifically Live Writer) and I'm receiving the following error when I launch the setup program: Couldn't install programs Please try installing Windows Live programs again. Err …

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OnCatalogResult: 0x80072ee6 An Unknown error occurred

Trying to install Windows Live Essentials (specifically Live Writer) and I'm receiving the following error when I launch the setup program: Couldn't install programs Please try installing Windows Live programs again. Err …

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Unable to add atitle to my videoclip

I created a video clip by using the movie Maker. I have windows 8.1 installed on my PC. Everyting was looking good to me,till I added the title. 2 problems: I cannot see how the title looks like when it's created. once i …

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windows movie maker no video

is there a fix for this yet? movie maker worked fine. updated to windows 10... no video now. hp website no help. hp pavilion g series. I need a link that says........use this codec or whatever I need

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 5, 2015