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Error with Photo Gallery and Windows 10

I have recently installed Windows 10 and have been unable to save or delete any of my photos. I'm receiving a message that my internet connection is lost or I am trying to save changes on a deleted photo. Neither of thos …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 12, 2015

Photo Gallery shuts down by itself.

No one has been able to tell me why Windows Photo Gallery shuts down moments after I have opened it, before I have a chance to work in it. Why? I reinstalled Essentials, but no change. Switched to Picasa and lost almost …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 12, 2015

Windows Live Photo Gallery

How can I transfer my Windows Live Photo Album photos from a Windows 7 computer to a Windows 10 computer? I have 32,000 photos many of which are tagged with information that I do not want to loose. When I download WLPA t …

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I paid for Windows Movie maker. How to use it?

Hi, just paid for Windows Video Maker. It seems the software is installed into my Windows 8.1 laptop, but after opening there is no menu to open the video to be edited. There is only a black screen with a lot of links to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 11, 2015

photo gallery

I am no longer able to post pictures from photo gallery to my facebook acct. I get a window that says" API calls from the server require an appsecret_proof argument (145) I am clueless as to what this means. Can this be …

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Sound not working while using Movie Maker

I have been using Movie Maker for over a year now to edit my videos for my YouTube channel, but now I cannot continue because the audio within the application has ceased to work. It has been like this for a couple of wee …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 10, 2015

Where did the Live Writer gallery go?

I had to restore my Windows 10 system and had to reinstall Windows Live Writer. When I went to download some plug-ins for Live Writer, I discovered that the Live Writer gallery is gone. I've tried searching online on oth …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 10, 2015

movie maker

why is my video all black in movie maker after i have loaded it from my camera....i can hear the audio but the screen is black...what's up

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 10, 2015

Windows MovieMaker is useless

I can take a 5 second video clip directly from my hard drive and as soon as I try to split it somewhere while using moviemaker, it automatically "loses" the data, and gives me an error to "fix" the rest of the movie.. I …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 9, 2015

Movie Maker on a VMware system

Windows movie maker does not open on a VMware system using a VMware SVGA 3D. Main driver is vm3dum.dll, vm3dgl.dll, version 7.14.1.2023. DirectX features, DirectDraw Acceleration, Direct3D acceleration and AGP Texture Ac …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 9, 2015

Photo Gallery not recognising external drive

Hi Folks, I've just installed Photo Gallery and it looks great, however I can't get it to Import the photos I store on my external Passport, as it doesn't recognise the drive. Any ideas, please? Thanks. Ron

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 9, 2015

tags and captions lost when loading to facebook

Greetings, I am using windows 7. I used photo gallery to edit pics, including tags and captions. Then I uploaded to Facebook. The tags and captions were lost. I recall doing the same before with XP and they were preserve …

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

No videos or audio on movie maker?

I recently upgraded to windows 10, and am trying to put a movie together. Whenever I add a video the only thing that shows is a gray screen and there's no audio. If I put pictures they show up fine. Please help.

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

Windows Movie Maker Black Screen

With all the complaints about the BLACK SCREEN in Windows 10 Movie Maker it seems to me that Microsoft would fix this Problem as they tell us that Windows 10 will be the greatest system ever. I like it, but sure wish the …

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