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Movie maker project file disappeared

Hi, I've worked on a movie for several weeks in Windows Movie Maker 2012. When I turned on my computer today, the project was disappeared. I saved it at the desktop (yes, I know that's stupid.) In Movie Maker I can see t …

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Movie Maker and Media Player wont play my videos.

Hey everybody. I have recorded some videoes that i have put into handbrake. Info about the file: General Complete name : C:FrapsMoviesThe Papirko RenderThe papirko1 01.mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Ve …

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WINDOWS LIVE ESSENTIALS

My original question was how to open Windows live mail, you managed to solve that question. But after installing the fix you sent, I discovered I couldn't send or forward e mails. I have tried unsuccessfully to uninstall …

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Security Essentials is stalling, Error Code 0x800106ba

I have been running Security Essentials for many years on this computer and others and this is the first time I have ever had a problem. It is stalling at a particular file, only during a Full Scan, but not in Quick Scan …

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Movie Maker Sound Lost after Saving

Hello, I'm having an issue with the sound here. A little background: I have recorded a video with fraps, and am using windows live movie make to reduce the size (in fraps a 12 minute video is 14 GB). This video has sound …

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Movie Maker not working in Windows 10

I tried to open movie maker a few days after I installed Windows 10, but it wouldn't open. Every time I click on the icon, I get this error message: C:WINDOWSSYSTEMUIRibbonRes.dll is either not designed to run on Windows …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 21, 2015

Windows 10 Photos. Not sorting by date?!

Hi I'm running on windows 10 after a clean install and i have run into a few problems with re-adding my photos. Windows 10 Photos doesn't seem to sort by dates, but instead by time periods (yesterday, earlier this year, …

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Vob files

Windows Live Movie Maker is playing VOB files but not showing pictures on the screen , Anybody have a solution, went to the Microsoft store ; didn't get an answer either, help..........please

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 20, 2015

Movie Maker 12 problem with .mod and .mpg on Windows 7

I've been using Movie Maker for years and haven't had any problems adding .mod and .mpg files onto my projects. Now all of the sudden the contents of those files don't show although the files itself show on the timeline …

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live movie maker has become unresponsive in windows 10

hi Have installed windows 10 and up to today everything was working fine. Tried to edit a video in live movie maker, which was working fine until this morning, and nothing happening, opens fine but when i try to import v …

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DVD Option Gone?

I have installed the movie maker and used it with no problem. However now the 2 hour movie slide show mix is done and ready to be burned to a DVD but cannot find this option where it used to be. Is it no longer an option …

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Windows Movie Maker does not work on windows 10.

Hi, I recently upgraded to windows 10 and continued with my video making business. After making the video with fraps I had to edit it with movie maker, but when I try to do that it loads up the video but with yellow tria …

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Photo Gallery People Tag Problem

I use Windows 10 Pro, but I had this problem before updating from Windows 8.1 Pro. The problem is with Photo Gallery, which is part of Windows Essentials 2012. It looks like the people tag Marita (not the real name) is a …

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Alt text

How do I add alt text to photos housed in windows live photo gallery?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 19, 2015

I can’t get Movie Maker to install — HELP!

Can't get to open or install the Movie Maker for Windows 7! HELP! It says that Windows Essential 2012 is installed, however the Movie and or Photo Gallery are not installed! I've uninstalled, fixed, etc... and yet nothin …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 19, 2015