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Movie Maker, Freemake Video Converter, or other?

On a previous thread, considerate_guy posted, "What I might suggest is skipping Movie Maker completely if all you want to do is to trim a little bit and then convert the file type to .mp4. In Freemake Video Converter, fo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 7, 2014

photo gallery

I am unable to open and view my photos. I was able to view them using photo gallery however it does not seem to be working. When I try to open photo gallery I get a message that "one or more folders included in photo gal …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 6, 2014

Printing in Photo Gallery

I used to be able (yesterday) to print different size pictures (e.g., wallet, very small size, 5x7, etc.) and to select different size paper up to 8x10. Today, I have limited paper size choices and no options to print ot …

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FILE SIZE WHEN DOWN LOADING AND SAVING

Am new to Movie Maker and am finding that a downloaded 30 second movie from my video camera is taking up 60mb which seems overly large in fact too large when I try to email it. Is there a way to reduce the size of movie …

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How to undo “Revert to original”?

I recently edited a photo in WIndows Live Gallery. However, I accidently pressed "Revert to original". Is there any way I can undo this and go back to my edited photo?

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Can’t download Windows Movie Maker again

Hi, I had Windows movie maker on my laptop and it used to work fine. The other day, I tried to open it and it just kept crashing when I tried to import videos. First I thought maybe I was trying to import too many at onc …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 6, 2014

Photo gallery – Windows 7

I have windows 7 and have been running the installed Photo gallery for at least 2 years. I store my photos on a portable hard drive and all has worked all Ok todate. The photos are loaded to be opened in photo gallery an …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 5, 2014

Unable to download Movie Maker.

hy i hav downlaoded windows muvie maker but by it got deleted again i mdownlaoding it is saying that u already hav this if itts there in where it can be tell plz

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 5, 2014

Windows Movie Maker doesn’t recognize WMA Audio File

I'm about to go on a cross-country trip. I want to take all the Harry Potter Audiobooks (they appear on Youtube periodically) and burn them to CDs so we can have some entertainment on our trip. Using a firefox add-on, I …

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Saving photo from Gallery to PC

Is it possible to save my pictures that are in Windows Photo Gallery to my desktop or to a memory stick? Or am I imprisoned by WPG?

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Windows media player and movie maker issues

It was fine for the few years I had the computer but recently this happened. The screen had a blank flash where the screen was black for about 3 seconds..then all my videos I play have a slight red tint and lowered quali …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 4, 2014

Movie Maker Stopped Working (Sort of)

I am running Movie Maker on Windows 7. I am not getting any error messages. I can add and remove video and audio, but once added I am unable to access the trim tools, set start times, start points, end points, etc. They …

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Functions of Movie Maker are not working

Original*** Movie Maker Stopped Working (Sort of) I am running Movie Maker on Windows 7. I am not getting any error messages. I can add and remove video and audio, but once added I am unable to access the trim tools, set …

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Windows Movie Maker Is Not Working

My windows movie maker use to work now it will not work. A error will pop up and it will say it sop working and close the program. I tried fixing the compatibility that didnt work then i tried repairing the windows esste …

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Movie Maker has “path error”

Did all the checks . My driver is fine , I just got a 64bit window 7 also did the file zipping. my computer is an XPS so its usually great with graphic. get "path error" for movie maker. signed in to the community and ca …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 3, 2014