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photo gallery cannot edit ‘C’ drive photos

Hi, Suddenly My win 10 photo gallery cannot find photos on my hard drive 'C' for editing. The photo gallery can open the photos but when i go for editing, the programme simply says - copying 1 item from desktop to piture …

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movie maker

I just installed latest version of windows movie maker (Esentials 2012) and did my first film project using it. When tried to save the project - many times in various versions, the product was completely black, I mean no …

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Import settings for pictures and video has changed

I have Photo Gallery on my PC with the import settings in AutoPlay for pictures and video files as '... using Photo Gallery'. When I connect my camera and camcorder it goes straight to the photo gallery import setup - it …

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Trouble uploading pictures to Facebook

Trying to upload pictures from photo gallery to Facebook but it keeps telling me video_upload is not a member of the permission table. (602) Don't know what this means or how to fix it.

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Problem sync POP3 account

in Windows 8 I had two accounts. One day after an update one of the accounts stopped working giving me an error code that i cannot remember. both accounts download from the same server different user names one is persona …

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Trouble with Windows Live Movie Maker

I've downloaded Windows Live Movie maker since I wasn't getting the darn Audio Edit Tab at the top. I currently have what seems to be a nerfed version of Windows Live Movie Maker just called, "Movie Maker". First I could …

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MTS file not working in movie maker

I have a film assignment due soon and all of my videos are working and editing, the're mts files straight from my camera however one of them is playing up. it won't open using any video player except for vlc but it take …

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Photos appearing rotated after Windows 10 upgrade

Dear all, Any help would be much appreciated. After upgrading to Windows 10 on my desktop, any photos taken in vertical format appear correctly rotated in Live Photo Gallery, whereas when you open them they are not rotat …

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Window DVD maker

I can get my DVD maker to encode properly so use I DCD's in a regular player.

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Windows Essentials Options

can I install only Movie Maker or does it install everything. I don't want to mess up Outlook and the other applications. running windows 7 thanks

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Windows Live Photo Gallery problems on Windows 8.1

I have used Windows Live Photo Gallery for several years. I recently bought an Acer laptop with Windows 8.1. I was able to download WLPG and download pictures from my camera. But every time I go to use it, it'll work for …

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Movie Maker image size

Hi, I want to add the same image a number of times but a different size. I've saved the image 8 times at a different size and it shows them different sizes in photo viewer. But when I import to Movie Maker it seems to ma …

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Photo Gallery

I have 64 bit windows 7. I started noticing my mp4 videos were not opening up correctly after i rated the video 5 stars. So now, the videos I rated 5 stars I can only see for like a second and then they disappear. I remo …

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Sorting by date in windows 10 photo

I do not like that Windows 10 photo gallery automatically sorts by date. I like the old way, where you can sort pics into different folders. Is there a way to turn the auto date sort off?

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Speed Adjustment in Movie Maker

I am running Windows 10 and 14.08.117.0416 of Windows Live Movie Maker. In the past I have been able to adjust the speed of clips. I can no longer find this option in my Video Tools, any tabs, drop down menus, or anywher …

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Windows Live essentials

Recently had serious "Crash" Amongst other things lost "Gallery" and ability to "FIX" pics. & docs. Thought these were included in Windows Live Essentials. which I reinstalled. Apparently not. How do I reinstall? Help pl …

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Windows Live Essentials

An update stated that it could not install because I already had a 'flavor'. Advised to uninstall Windows Live Essentials. Did that. Now I get the Windows Live Essentials cannot be installed to Vista. What is up with tha …

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Movie Maker Error – Element Not Found

After spending the majority of today editing a Wedding Video, and waiting over two hours for it to save into an MP4 format, I now can't play it!!! I simply get; Element Not Found. Can anyone help?

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Windows Movie Maker

I have the same questions others posted in this community and so far can't see any useful relies/comments. my case : Windows Movie Maker (WMM) was working perfectly when I was using i5 till I upgraded to i7. WMM allows m …

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windows Live Writer 2012

How do I get windows Live Writer 2012 to work now that I have upgraded to windows 10 on my Surface Pro2. I keep getting this error message: Windows Live writer error message at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCod …

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