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Windows Movie Maker: No Sound.

Hi, I am having a problem with the audio on my Windows Movie Maker. When I publish or save my video (Save them as Finale Products) the video quality is perfect, no problems there, but the audio is not working. My movies …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 30, 2015

Sorry, Moviemaker can’t start ??

My Movie maker has stopped working, and now displays the following message every time i try to run it. "Sorry, Movie maker can't start. Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements before trying to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 30, 2015

movie maker and video flickering

Ok So i recorded some videos on my Canon 60D. I transferred these to my computer and loaded then onto Movie player to be edited. Unfortunately the clips are flicker (the images) but the sound is fine. Also when I play th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 29, 2015

DELETED EMAILS MOVED BACK TO SPAM FOLDER INSTEAD

I received two stupid spam/phishing emails that were appropriately delivered to my Spam folder. When I deleted these, they were moved to the Trash folder. Great!...or so I thought. When I tried to delete them permanently …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 29, 2015

How to Open Windows Essentials Photo Thing on 8.1

Hello, I have downloaded the Windows Essential Photo app. I would like to upload photos to my computer using that app, but I can't even figure out how to open the app. I liked how it did that automatically in Vista. How …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 27, 2015

Not receiving calendar notifications

I have stopped receiving calendar notifications (windows 8.1 and windows live essentials). I have read several posts with similar problems and I have checked my calendar notification settings which are correct - but stil …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 27, 2015

Big issues with OneNote Sync

Hi All, Exactly 20 days ago, everything was well with OneNote Sync and I was using it without issue across devices. But 16 days ago, I got a message asking me to install/update Windows Essentials and in my naiveté, I acc …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 27, 2015

WLMP – HELP WITH CORRUPT FILE

Not sure if my 1st post was sent. Trying to open a windows movie maker file for my sons project, and it says its corrupted, very frustrating! Can anyone help. have uploaded to OneDrive and set as 'public'. This is the li …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 26, 2015

Muted sounds?

So I recently recorded a video with my friend with a recording software, DxTory. When I checked the audio, everything is perfect. My friend is talking to me over skype throughout the video. But then, when I imported the …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 25, 2015

can’t send emails

I can receive emails and the emails to be sent are in the "Sent Items" folder. I can send and receive when using the mail server on the web. It seems that the emails are going out but no one is getting them. I have tried …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 25, 2015

video is black, audio works fine

hello, I recently downloaded windows movie maker 2012, which is a part of Windows Essentials on Windows 7. I tried making a movie from the videos and music files I downloaded. the format of the video files are mp4 and th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 25, 2015

video glitching

i uploaded videos from my Iphone 5c to create a video in movie maker. after all animations and music was added went to see my video and the video was shaking and glitching. I need to fix this ASAP as it is due for school …

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Windows Live Movie Maker startup error

I've been struggling with this issue for weeks now. Every time I try to open Movie Maker (or any other Windows Live Essentials program) I get this message: "windows/system32/mf.dll is either not designed to run on window …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 25, 2015

dvd movie maker

Movie maker now creates mp4 files which do not work on my dvd player that is connected to the television! The proportionally correct dvds created play only on my windows 7 computer. In addition, windows dvd maker randoml …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 25, 2015

error 0x80004003 on movie maker

Hi i'm trying to make make a movie on movie maker version 2012 (build 16.4.3528.0331) i used SONY's DSC-HX300 cyber-shot camera. When i add the video it wont play on the bigger screen. also i cant veiw it on media player …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 24, 2015

Windows 8 Movie Maker – Clips Turn Green/Gray

I downloaded the latest WMV last September, and I've encountered the same issue of clips turning green or grey. At first, some of them are green/gray, while others are normal, yet later turn green/grey! I already convert …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 24, 2015

Windows Movie Maker Display Problem

I have been working on a video all day. I've been saving it constantly as I have always been doing because I know it shuts down a lot. Recently I made an edit (i trimmed a video clip i believe) that made some of my thumb …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 24, 2015