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Speed grayed out in my Windows Live Movie Maker

I purchased a pc with Windows 8 installed. I just recently decided to use my Movie Maker, which came with my Windows 8 apps. Most of it is working ok - but I need to slow it down a bit and the editing for the 'speed' is …

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Editing photos in Photo Gallery

I save all of my photos to Dropbox and then edit them with Photo Gallery, but for some reason on my home office computer, when I click edit the window comes up with every photo I have ever taken basically and dropbox isn …

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Movie Maker not allowing me to import videos

About two weeks ago, I downloaded windows movie maker along with the rest of windows essentials and everything was working fine. I just used the movie maker this morning and it was working perfectly! Now I need to edit a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 23, 2015

Photo Gallery error code 0X8007007e

My Photo Gallery says "Photo Gallery encountered an error loading WLXPhotoiewer.dll and can't start".. I have no idea what this means, why is happened after years of success or what to do. I have been sidetracked for man …

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

Movie Maker Wont let me put my videos on 16:9

So I have started a youtube and it was going well until I noticed that I was haveing problems with my my videos having a big black outline. I tried the yt:stretch 16:9 and it didn't work and so I went on Windows Movie ma …

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

Windows dvd maker

I put all my photos onto dvd maker and set them to music which makes them much more pleasant to watch than just watching them just as pictures. I have hundreds still to convert as I also make copies for my children,i thi …

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

Windows Live Movie Maker Zoom/Crop effect

I know there are some similar posts, but they aren't quite specific to my issue (i don't think), and I thought it would be easier to get direct advice. I'm attempting to make a video on Windows Live Movie Maker and at on …

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

Can’t import pictures from my iPhone.

I can import from my Pentax camera, but Photo Gallery doesn't recognize my iPhone or my iPad. I have tried two different cords to no avail. I have been able to import from both of these devises in the past. What am I doi …

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

List of tags in Photo Gallery missing from Nav pane

Windows 8.1 I recently changed computers and downloaded Photo gallery and imported by pictures. On my old computer I had a choice in the navigation pane: by date AND by tag. Now I can only see by date. I can find the tag …

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

tagging raw(Nikon NEF) files

Hi, I have used Windows Photo Gallery over the past two months to tag my images(over 100K) all of which are various Nikon NEF raw files. I've spent countless hours using Windows Photo Gallery to tag some 10-20K images ov …

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Importing photo files into Movie Maker

When using Movie Maker, how can photos from different cameras be converted to the same sizes to eliminate the black bars on the sides of the ones that are different?

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

Problem in Previewing full screen

I've been using movie maker since a long time now . As i was starting a new project i clicked on preview fullscreen , what happened next was that, the movie did played in fullscreen but there was a one inch black border …

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

Windows Movie Maker 2012 Missing Thumbnails

Hello, I am having trouble with my Movie Maker 2012. It worked just fine earlier today. The last time I remember, I accidentally click "Trim" somewhere in the middle of my thumbnails, then it was frozen. So I clicked und …

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