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Windows Movie Maker- Music Issue

I need to add music between two other music clips. When I try to do that, it moves all the music after it, which is a problem because everything is timed out nicely at the end. Is there a way to do this without messing e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2015

Movie Maker 2012 crashes when adding video files

I have read all the current posts and have been unable to resolve my issue. I am running windows 8.1 and windows essentials 2012. I have tried to repair, uninstall and reinstall to no avail. When I start the program I ge …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2015

How do I make video longer than 30 min?

Just got this new version of movie maker and I see it only lets you make 30 min. video correct me if I'm wrong is there a way of making them longer like the old movie maker?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2015

Disable Automatic Updating

Is it possible to disable the automatic check for updates when Photo Gallery is launched? We would like to be able to control updates that are applied to Windows Movie Maker/Photo Gallery rather than letting the updates …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 2, 2015

Disable Sharing?

We are deploying Movie Maker/Photo Gallery, but we do not want our users to have the option to share files on Facebook, OneDrive, YouTube, etc. Is there a way that we can disable this feature?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 2, 2015

Audio will not play in Windows Movie Maker

Since I downloaded Windows Movie Maker, which was just days ago so yes it is the most updated version, it will not play any audio. It will play videos but not the audio associated with them. I tried multiple video format …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 1, 2015

Cannot re-install Microsoft Live Essentials.

I am trying to re-install live essentials, but the downloader keeps telling me I have the latest version when ifn fact it is not installed. Nothing appears in the remove a program area, so there is nothing to remove, but …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 1, 2015

help?

my photo gallery app is now incompatible. when opened everything turns hazy, can not download the app again. ??? malware or virus??? having problems with media player too

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2014

movie maker green screen fault 2012 edition

I have just recently got a laptop and started using window movie maker to edit my content and it was all working fine and all of sudden when I try and play my back content random parts of the movie I just get a green scr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2014

Photo Gallery

As I was editing photos my crop icon disappeared. It shows Auto adjust and next to it is Straighten. Crop just disappeared after I cropped a photo. Where did it go and how do I get it back?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2014

my crop icon disappeared in Photo Gallery

original Title - Photo Gallery As I was editing photos my crop icon disappeared. It shows Auto adjust and next to it is Straighten. Crop just disappeared after I cropped a photo. Where did it go and how do I get it back?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2014

Windows LIve Movie Maker error 0x887A0005

I have spent many hours creating a video that is now 1hr and 15mins long with 900+ pictures, transitions and music. I have used this program for several years and created 10+ videos with the same amount of pictures/trans …

Open Windows Essentials Archived 1 answer Last activity: Sep 6, 2016

movie maker

Can you edit a "credit" in a movie maker movie once it has been saved?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 30, 2014

Windows Movie Maker Sound Not Working

I downloaded windows movie maker as part of the Windows Essentials 2012 package as I need to use it for a university project. I sent videos from my iPad to my email and downloaded them, the sound and video playing fine o …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2014

Windows live writer and QHD+ (3200 x 1800) display

Hello there, I got a new laptop Dell XPS 15 9530 with QHD+ (3200X1800) display and I was wondering how can I set up windows live writer to work properly in this windows resolution. Already the program is acting strangely …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2014

Rendering problems

I recently got back into the video editing community after recovering my computer from a virus. I ended up getting the newest version of Movie Maker and began to edit it. Everything was fine until I began to render it so …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2014