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Resize not work when publish vertical photo

I use Photo Gallery to upload my photos to the cloud service, such as One Drive and Google+ (PicasaWeb). But I found there is a problem: When I upload the photo with limited size (resize to smaller resolution), the resiz …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 1, 2014

Cannot play videos using Windows Movie Maker

Original thread : windows media player is not working in windows 8.1 Split from this thread. I had the same problem with a laptop I bought yesterday. Audio would play for mpg file but no video. MS Helpdesk fixed the prob …

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

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When I use Windows Live Movie Maker to try to make a "interview video" of myself I get the following error: I have checked my device manager and imaging devices and it states webcam is working. It also works fine with Sk …

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Separate RAW and JPEG

I am importing JPEG+RAW pictures into Photo Gallery, producing duplicate thumbnails of the shot. Can the formats be separated by Photo Gallery into separate files instead of having to manually move the RAW.

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How to rearrange photos in Photo Gallery manually.

It seems that we can only sort the photos according to the preset menus. Previous threads seem to suggest that Microsoft Photo Gallery can't do this basic essential function. Has there been an update to Photo Gallery to …

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Windows Live Movie Maker Error 0x80004005

I am currently running Windows 8.1. Every time I try to open up Movie Maker, I get an error message saying "Sorry, Movie Maker had to shut down unexpectedly. Please restart it, and then try again. (Error: 0x80004005) I'v …

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

missing wlxphotobase.dll file

I am sorry this is long but want to give as much detail so there won't be a reply I have already tried. I am on Windows 7. When I launch Window movie maker (latest version) I get the error message that wlxphotobase.dll i …

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my video is separated

hello! i recently downloaded wmm for my youtube videos. im going to take this step by step. first i record my videos with overwolf, then i review them with the windows 8 movie viewer to make sure it turned out ok, but th …

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

Movie Makers loads .mov files as empty frames

I have taken several videos files with a canon 600D which have the file type .mov. I can import them and they are saved in the gallery. If I click on a file in the gallery it plays. However, if I "add" a video file to Mo …

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Windows Essentials Live Writer Norwegian spell checker

Hi ... I've searched the net over and over again, but I can't find out how to get a Norwegian spell checker in Live Writer 2012. I have downloaded the Language package. I have selected Norwegian in the Region and Languag …

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

Emailing a picture from photo gallery

I know this question has been asked several times on your forum,but I still cannot email pics from photo gallery. I have to also say windows 8 is the worst operating system ever created by man. It is so frustrating to us …

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

.MOV file not working in Movie Maker

Split from this thread. Dear timmukhin, I tried what you suggested, and it did not work (I have a Windows 7 computer). I am trying to open video files with the tail .MOV in the Windows Live Movie Maker which I had been a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 27, 2014

Windows Movie Maker long load time

We want to grab a 30-second clip from a 15 minute video. We know right where it's at, but it takes 45 minutes for WMM to initially load the video. Is there a way to circumvent this problem?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 27, 2014

Windows Photo Gallery

I import all my photos to windows photo gallery 1. All my users have access to all photos no matter what user imported them? 2. They even go to a user that we never open ( store demo) I opened it and it had 65GB of pictu …

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Adding Music from Local PC

Using Movie Maker from the Windows Essential 2012 suite. I am trying to add music to the video from my local PC. This is music that I downloaded with my Xbox Music Pass Subscription. Here is a screen shot of me pointing …

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Video clip pauses after trimming video

I have Windows 7 and am currently using Windows Live Movie Maker version 15.4.3508.1109. I have a .wmv video that I added to my movie project then trimmed a portion of it. When I play the trimmed portion, the video pause …

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