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Movie Maker

I had Movie Maker on my old windows 7 laptop. I now have a new laptop with windows 8.1 and installed Movie Maker. My Panasonic video camera apparently uses MOD files which were compatible with windows 7 but not with wind …

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

Publishing onto DVD-R using Version 2012 Movie Maker

I am confused as to why there are only options to publish my video online using Windows Movie Maker (Version 2012). I do not wish to publish the video on the internet, but would rather publish to the movie on a disc. as …

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

Windows Photo Gallery can’t open photos

I can't open any photos on my Pictures, Downloads, and Documents folders using Windows Photo Viewer or Photo Gallery. I keep getting the error "Photo Gallery can't open this photo because you do not have permission to ac …

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

Video Screen Saver

I want to have a screen saver that will play video, ideally cycling through a number of files in a specific location. I have set up a screen saver in photo gallery using "Album" theme and this works but not exactly how I …

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

Movie Maker crashes the computer during save operation

Hello. I am currently in the process of converting old VHS-C tapes to a hard drive, and then splitting them to be uploaded to YouTube. I am having a professional photography company convert the tapes to DVD. The DVD cont …

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

Windows Movie Maker Music Issue

I made a video on Windows Movie Maker and the music to the first song plays fine. However, when the music changes to the next song, there isn't any sound when the movie is in full screen mode. Please advise. Thanks, Mary

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

MovieMaker doesn’t open YouTube sign in page

Hi I'm having trouble uploading to YouTube direct from MovieMaker. I have no problem uploading direct from Youtube. When I click on YouTube in Moviemaker it no longer comes up with a sign in page for YouTube and ask you …

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

Windows Photo gallery

yet again this program has stopped working !!!!!! about 30 seconds after starting a window pops up saying it has stopped working. I have tried all the various solutions suggested on this site, and nothing helps. In fact …

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

Movie maker seems to have locked my photos

I have made a movie in movie maker using photos and audio about a month ago and now I want to edit it by adding more photos, but I can only add them on the end, I can not put them in the middle or anywhere else. How can …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Hi, I'm filming a video and I want to make a scene where someone is talking and when the scene changes to another clip, that person is still talking. Is it possible to do that on this movie maker? If so, how?

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

Problem with videos

When I load a video to be edited... it puts a green film over the video... the videos are fine no issues with them.. but for some reason, Movie Maker is putting this green film on them... as if I have a green filter on t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 13, 2015

Windows 10 + Movie Maker

Hello all, I will be upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 when 10 becomes available to the general public. I use movie maker regularly and wanted to know if movie maker will be available in Windows 10, and if it is w …

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