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Movie Maker – Runtime Error

"Runtime Error ! Program: This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information." Hello guys I need help with fixing this trouble …

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FX cause picture’s timing to drift

I have a song that I want to create a music video for using pictures and some video. I imported a WMA file and some pictures so far and after meticulously working out timing so that a picture comes in on a certain beat i …

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Windows 10: Movie Maker

I found that Movie Maker in Windows 10 does not accept .mov files. error code: 0x87160139 Does anyone have a solution for this?

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Windows Photo Gallery Live will not edit jpeg photos

Microsoft Photo Gallery won't edit my photos anymore. I can open the photo in Gallery but when I click on "Edit, organize, or share" a pop up window states "There is already a file with the same name in this location" an …

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Windows Photo Gallery Live will not edit jpeg photos

Microsoft Photo Gallery won't edit my photos anymore. I can open the photo in Gallery but when I click on "Edit, organize, or share" a pop up window states "There is already a file with the same name in this location" an …

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cannot get defaults to work, photo gallery hogs them

I like to use windows photo viewer to access pictures, but windows 10 has made the default photo gallery. It will not let me change defaults, either by program or by extensions. For example I tried to change the extensio …

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Can’t read AVI files in Win10 Movie Maker

Hey, I recently just upgraded to Windows 10, and can't read .AVI files anymore in Movie Maker. I imagine there must be some kind of addon or something I can install to make it work? If so, what is it? Thanks!

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Windows photo gallery

When I down loaded Windows 10 I lost windows photo gallery. I spent hours on that and I see no way to get it back. Is there help?

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

I'm having trouble with Live Photo Gallery in Windows 10 64 bit. The pictures are being displayed but with missing pieces, or a grid of white squares that randomly cover parts of the pictures. It happens randomly even on …

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Movie Maker for Windows 10

Hey, I need to use Windows Movie Maker for something but I don't have Windows Movie Maker and It's not available for Windows 10 which means I have a problem. Will there be a Windows 10 edition?

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Windows Live Programmes

Hi I've recently upgraded to W10 on 2 machines, both of which were running W7. Everything is fine (now I've sorted out a few teething problems) except for Windows Live (Essentials) programmes. On one of the machines, non …

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Movie Maker 2.6 Won’t Save (WMV/WMA Source Files)

I know this is a common problem, but as far as I can tell, the common solutions aren't applicable. My only two source videos are WMVs. My source audio is WMA. I have 36.6 GB of free disk space on my C: drive. I also trie …

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Error with Photo Gallery After Installing Windows 10

I installed Windows 10 on Wednesday. Thursday I tried to open Photo Gallery but it didn't. I got an error message that "MSVCR110.dll is missing from my computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." Do I ne …

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Windows Live Photo Galley

Is it possible to send a slide deck made with windows live photo gallery as an imbedded photo in a Windows Live email under Windows 7?

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More Problems With Movie Maker 6.0

I recently prepared several small projects for my friend (who has a digital camera but not a computer). I played them back and they were fine so I invited her to visit in order to O.K. them before publishing and getting …

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Windows Movie Maker & Windows 10

Hello! I have windows 10 and I've been using windows movie maker with my windows 7 I make videos for youtube but now that I installed windows 10 Movie makers does not seem to be reading the video files.........I need hel …

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