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Windows 7 Pro Windows Live email glitch

Hi, Well, the plot thickens. All has been well since the above I went through some hoops under the guidance of the good folk here, to collect all my accounts' mail in one place. The "allrule" collected all the incoming m …

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photo gallery on windows 10

I had to have a new hard drive put in my laptop computer and had windows 10 installed. Trying to set everything up and I downloaded and installed windows live mail and photo gallery. After installation was completed, win …

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Blank screen during playback in Windows Movie Maker

Hello, I transferred Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0 from my old PC (running Windows XP), to my new laptop (running Windows 8.1). Although the pictures display correctly on the collection board and timeline, the playback screen i …

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Need to know…if you can?

I have Windows Live Photo Gallery....in importing photos from my phone and I pad they have saved the same photos more then once..........is there any way I can tell the program to only keep one copy and will it delete al …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

I have been using Windows Live Photo Gallery for several year. Today when I try to edit a picture it automatically goes back to the previous picture. I don't know how to fix this. Can someone help me please. Thanks

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Movie Maker not working with any files that i import.

Hello everybody. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 on my HP laptop from Windows 8.1 and have found out that Movie Maker is now alergic to movies &will not import the files even if they are wmv. I've tried wmv and mp4 as …

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Cannot install Windows Essentials 2012

I've researched this and have tried everything with the exception of reformatting my hard drive and starting all over again. This problem occurred after I had done a windows 10 upgrade. I didn't like windows 10 because i …

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Movie maker

I made a movie and saved it in the mp4 format. When I played this mp4 file there was only the sound, no pictures at all. Can someone help fix this?

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Movie Maker Windows 10 – No Burn DVD option?

Hey, I haven't had a PC in a while, but a few months ago I bought one to store pictures and videos and to do basic things. I recently upgraded from windows 7 to 10. A few days ago I wanted to burn some old family videos …

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

getting live writer out of pdf? Or is it HTML?

How do I get Live Writer out of PDF mode? Maybe it should be HTML instead. I have used Live Writer for writing blogs for several years. The last time I used it I must have inadvertently done something on the keyboard, as …

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Sleidshow problem in Windows 10

Hi out there. when I open photo gallery and choose slideshow, the screek lools like the show is about to start, but then reverts to the start screen. The photo gallery is still open, but the slideshow will not work. Help …

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Photo Gallery

I run Windows 8.1, I downloaded free Windows 10, deleted it after 2 days as I couldn't save documents or pics. Now still have the same problem....I can't import pics to Photo gallery, HELP

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movie maker

I make movies once finish I use to see when I burn to cd/dvd now since Microsoft has been added I don't see burn cd/dvd where as it would take me to the next step producing my movie with the spinning wheel or clouds maki …

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Photo Gallery

Photo gallery only opening with the generic form photo. Will not let me access correct date. Seems to be stuck in on phrase of photos. Cannot locate my photo without a lot of stress.

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Movie Maker

Good day all. I am trying to load Windows Movie Maker running W 8.1 and 365.I have been unable to download Movie Maker. I have loaded Essentials 2012 and when required as to run all programs or custom load. I used the la …

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Windows 10 Photo Gallery will not open

When I try to open Photo Gallery after installing Windows10, I get the following error message: Photo Gallery encountered an error loading WLXPhotoLibraryMain.dll and can't start. Any thoughts on how I retrieve my pics?

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

Cropping

When I click crop in Photo Gallery, the size is MUCH smaller than when I cropped using Picasa using 4x6 as my mesure. Until today when I ran Fixit, I couldn't use Photo Gallery, which worked very well the first and only …

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How can I remove Window Security Essentials in W10

I get Error code:0x8004FF6F when I try to remove it. Windows Defender is disabled because Security Essentials isup and running and I want to change to Defender. Note. Product is not Photo Gallery, but Security Essential …

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Odering prints

Why can I no longer order prints from Photo Gallery, using Windows 7, to an outside photo printing company such as Snapfish etc. any longer????

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