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Cannot reduce resolution of images in Photo Gallery

Original title: RESOLUTION I am trying to reduce resolution on saved images in windows photo gallery from 600 dpi or 300 dpi to a smaller amount. I am able to resize image to small, medium or large, but the DPI is still …

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

Movie Maker mp4 format – tinge of orange

Hello everyone! I just started using Movie Maker, recently, and am using it to create a montage of other HD videos. I created what I liked and used this function: File > Save movie > For high-definition display (1080) Th …

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

Changing Photo Print Size

All photos print as 4x6 no matter what I do. I have chosen option for full page photo and fit picture to frame, but still print 4x6. I have Windows Live Print Photo Gallery and the printer is a Canon MG6120

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Windows Live Essentials 2012 – Not Working?

Hello Microsoft My Windows Essentials 2012 apps are not working, Movie Maker, Mail, you name it. I have searched for days and days looking at forum threads, reinstalling, I did anything I could. But all the time whenever …

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Windows Live Essentials 2012 – Not Working?

Hello Microsoft My Windows Essentials 2012 apps are not working, Movie Maker, Mail, you name it. I have searched for days and days looking at forum threads, reinstalling, I did anything I could. But all the time whenever …

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

Movie Maker won’t convert first clip of movie

I uploaded a video that I recorded of myself, and then edited it quite a bit, cutting several scenes. I had also recorded the audio to it on another device, and uploaded that too. I had it all edited so the audio and vid …

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

Movie Maker

I'm trying to open my files with Movie Maker. When I try to do so it just keep saying " This file may not be compatible with Movie Maker or the file may be corrupted". The problem is that I can view the file through the …

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

Windows Movie Maker problems

I followed the insturction and imported the song I wanted to use it saved ok.. then I attached a few photos and it said it could not find the location of the hotos. I tried it one photo at a time and all I get is and RED …

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Photo Gallery Importing Picture

I am moving from Picture Manager to Photo Gallery on Windows 7 due to a computer crash. Is there a setting anywhere in the program to stop the program from importing a whole folder?? In the Picture manager I could open s …

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

Windows Movie Maker

When I try t open Movie Maker this is the message that shows- the procedure entry point_crtCreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR110.dllv I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Pleas …

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My photo gallery is chaos. How to rearrange?

I have been importing pictures of clothing to sell on ebay and many of my cats. I have them all mixed up and together and by no specific tag or name. Is there a way I can reorganize all my pictures and how? Any help is m …

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Movie Maker – Powerpoint to loop

I used Powerpoint 2007 to set up one blank slide, download a Movie Maker video Onto the slide, then loop it to obtain a continuously running, free-standing presentation of the video. I had to first save the Movie Maker v …

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DIFFICULTY SIGNING IN TO WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER

I tried without any success to log into my Movie Maker in a bid to upload a You Tube video. Using my Microsoft Windows Live account details, I was promted to change my password several times as each successive change yie …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery for 8.1

Is there any way, when using Windows Live Photo Gallery, to place two pictures side by side or even four pictures to one page? I know that these apps exist for smartphones and people use them on a regular basis for posti …

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

Uploads to Flickr from Photo Gallery not working…

Hey Microsoft -- when is this going to get fixed? It was reported eight months ago, and we are still waiting for an answer. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/gallery-sharing/photo-gallery-not-working-w …

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