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How to find deleted faces from the batch people tag?

I had someone else helping me name a group of people and they deleted some pictures that I know were there and incorrectly named a large amount of them can I delete the person tag and then find it on the batch people tag …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 25, 2014

msnmsgr.exe Entry Point Not Found

Hi, When I try to start Movie Maker 2012, I get the following error message: "msnmsmgr.exe Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point_CreateSymbolicLinkW could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR110.dll …

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error code 0x 80131620

Hello, I keep getting error code 0x80131620 when trying to upload a video to facebook from movie maker live, why? and how do I fix it?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 23, 2014

Input Audio and Video

I installed Windows Movie Maker on my Dell Optiplex 455 desktop computer which utilises Window 8.1. I have a Logitech camera with microphone attached to the computer. When I try to record a movie or dub sounds onto a mov …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 22, 2014

Error 0x887a0005

Hi All I have been putting together a windows movie maker project and recently "saved movie for computer" and burnt a disc.. brilliant! A few days later i needed to make some amendments, so i moved a few pictures around …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 22, 2014

Conversion

Hello all! I am here to ask for assistance in a matter with the converter. When you are finished editing a video, I notice you can change the resolution using the "Save Video" menu. I did so and opted to increase the res …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 21, 2014

How to change resolution on Movie Maker?

Original Title: Conversion Hello all! I am here to ask for assistance in a matter with the converter. When you are finished editing a video, I notice you can change the resolution using the "Save Video" menu. I did so an …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 21, 2014

dpapi.dll error

A while ago, maybe a month, I had this error on my computer when I attempt to open some applications, including Dropbox, Movie Maker. I have re-installed these applications several times from their actual websites. I tri …

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Windows Movie Maker

I am using Movie Maker in Windows 7. Have just tried to open some projects and each one will open but all the movie clips have a yellow triangle with a ? mark. Still images are intact. If I play the movie I just get a bl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 20, 2014

Windows Movie Maker: yellow triangle mark

I am using Movie Maker in Windows 7. Have just tried to open some projects and each one will open but all the movie clips have a yellow triangle with a ? mark. Still images are intact. If I play the movie I just get a bl …

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Cannot reinstall Windows Live Essentials 2011/2012

Hello, I'm using Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-bit), 4GB RAM, AMD Quad Core 2.30 GHz and I've been having trouble with my Live Mail 2011 for a few days. Repairing it (a few times even) did not work, so I uninstalled it …

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Movie Maker Sound Issues with Widows 8.1 Update

Ever since the update for Windows 8 (version 8.1), Movie Maker has been failing to playback sound. Most times, it will just make a clicking sound that will then mess up the audio for my entire computer (can't play music …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 20, 2014

Windows Movie Maker playback problems

I often use Movie clips from various movies in teaching. In the older version of Windows Moviemaker I had no problems. Now after the first movie clip is played the screen goes black when it reaches the next clip. If I go …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 19, 2014

Movie Maker to iPod

I created a 30 minute DVD using Windows Movie Maker. I would like to save that movie to an iPod. Do I have to reinvent the wheel and start from scratch or is there a way to take my project and convert/save as some way th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 19, 2014

Movie Maker Error 0x80004003

One file is coming up with this error but all other files filmed on the same camcorder before and after the problem are working fine. Why is this one not working and how can I fix this?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 19, 2014

photo duration setting

movie maker doesn't allow me to set duration of photos less than 1 sec for time lapse movies why is that

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 19, 2014