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Revert Back to Regular Photos

All my pictures folders have been converted to movie maker format. I do not want this format. How do I go back to the regular photo mode?

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

Windows Movie Maker on Windows 8.1: Breaks audio

There are other threads about this already, but I'm posting to ask how to report the bug and a fix. Problem: When I open up Movie Maker, open a saved project, and click "Play" to play the movie I've made so far, the audi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 18, 2015

Windows 7 Movie Maker Issue

My movie maker seems to work fine until I save the movie then I can hear the audio but otherwise it is a black screen.....any idea's on how to fix this?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 18, 2015

Print pictures error

When I try to print a photo with Photo Gallery or Windows Photo Viewer I get the following error box pop up : Print Pictures Error. Windows photo viewer can`t print this picture because there`s no printer or a service Wi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 18, 2015

Movie Maker save to DVD problems

Hi I'm a reasonably computer-literate granddad who has used Movie Maker successfully for a number of years to make DVD movies containing a mix of stills and video of holidays and grandchildren. I'm currently (very!) frus …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 18, 2015

Where are the features in Movie Maker?

I just updated Movie Maker. It has no Help option, no Video Tools, no Trim Tool, no Split, no Set Start Point (though it does have a Set End Point). What the heck do I have? It is completely inadequate for anything but l …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 18, 2015

Unable to download Windows Movie Maker

Hi there, I'm seemingly unable to download Windows Movie Maker and a little confused as to why. I visited 'http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows-Live/movie-maker' to start the process. I downloaded the relevant file …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 17, 2015

Live Movie Maker – “File path not found” ?!?!

The video audition I made and saved is "not found". I have this due tomorrow and I need to know if theres any way of restoring the file location! I wont save anything else or even turn my computer off without doing so! I …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 17, 2015

Movie Maker

My video is moving a warp speed and I cannot understand half of my speech. I was careful to record myself using a moderate tone and it is racing ahead a warp speed. When I go to the edit and try to slow down the speech, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 17, 2015

Windows video to Mac video

I have a PC and my girlfriend has a Mac. I've made a video on windows movie maker that I want to save onto a thumb drive/flash drive/USB and give to her as a birthday present. I know that Macs use different video softwar …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 16, 2015

Getting error msg on Photo Gallery

I keep getting the following message when I start my computer and can't open half of my photo gallery pictures, anyone else have this problem? Enter album name here VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL This album has 1 photo and …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 16, 2015

Movie Maker doesn’t upload edited video to Facebook.

Hello everyone, After transferring my video to movie maker, I click the FACEBOOK logo and a window pops up letting me know what resolution I want for the video clip. After clicking the video resolution, a window appears …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 16, 2015

lyric timing problems

i posted some lyric videos on youtube after making them on my movie maker and the timing is off by 5 seconds i go to fix it on my movie maker the timing is fine

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 15, 2015

Windows Movie Maker

Why will only some of my mp3 files import and others come up with the file path and the message that it cannot be imported?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 14, 2015