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Trouble adding entire song on movie maker….help!

When I try to add music to movie maker it only plays part of the song......how to do I get it to play the song in entirety?......is there a way to get Windows Live MM as it was on XP?....I had no trouble with that and it …

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Limits to Title Text – font or length or … ?

Using Windows Live Movie Maker, I have on my title page a 171 word ( 36 point font), 872 character text which scrolls for 50 seconds. In Movie Maker it shows correctly, however, in DVD Maker preview, the last 42 words ar …

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Live photo gallery screensaver not working

HI since a (not so) recent update my live photo gallery has not worked. it shows in the preview panel in control panel but when screensaver activate i get a black screen with the error message 'An error is preventing thi …

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

Live photo gallery screensaver not working

HI since a (not so) recent update my live photo gallery has not worked. it shows in the preview panel in control panel but when screensaver activate i get a black screen with the error message 'An error is preventing thi …

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

Live photo gallery screensaver not working

HI since a (not so) recent update my live photo gallery has not worked. it shows in the preview panel in control panel but when screensaver activate i get a black screen with the error message 'An error is preventing thi …

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

Movie Maker Snapshot Error

I open the movie maker before and could take snapshots. But for some reason it isn't working today. The web cam won't even turn on anymore, the video is still working but not the snapshot feature. What happened to it? Ca …

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

Audio problems in Movie Maker

Split from this thread. Me too, same problem. Too much time spent on this already. It shouldn't be this hard. Am going to get another product. <Movie Maker version not stated>

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Photo Gallery Message Will Not Go Away

Every time I open Photo Gallery I get the message "Would you like to use Photo Gallery to open these types of files?" It then lists a few files. I check the files and the box that says "Don't show this again". But every …

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Windows Live Movie maker; Error Code 0x8004070

*Original Title: Windows Live Movie maker I was trying to install windows live movie maker but it show me error massage saying error : 0x8004070 source: dotNet40. so guys if you can please help me. thanks.

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

Windows Live Movie maker

I was trying to install windows live movie maker but it show me error massage saying error : 0x8004070 source: dotNet40. so guys if you can please help me. thanks.

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

Windows Live Movie maker

I was trying to install windows live movie maker but it show me error massage saying error : 0x8004070 source: dotNet40. so guys if you can please help me. thanks.

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

Audio issues

whwb I upload a video into windows movie maker , it seems to make my speakers not work. Not only can I not hear the audio from my video , my speakers start making an odd clicking sound, even in other programs. When I res …

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

Trouble adding photos

I have a question that I am struggling badly with. OK, so I am making a still image and audio video and whenever I add a new photo, it adds four instead. My problem is that at a certain point in the song I want to show o …

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

Trouble adding photos

I have a question that I am struggling badly with. OK, so I am making a still image and audio video and whenever I add a new photo, it adds four instead. My problem is that at a certain point in the song I want to show o …

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

Movie Maker

Movie Maker has stopped working. I am running Windows 7 and have now installed Essentials. I now get a message that my system requirements are not adequate. However I have checked and I have Directx11 and all the feature …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 28, 2014