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Photo gallery

I am attempting to scan a lot of old family photos to Live Photo Gallery. I am using Windows 7, and have had no problems till yesterday, when suddenly the photo I scanned and am trying to edit won't show up in the Live P …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 16, 2014

Hello,

I could not installed windows essentials-2012 I have win-7 . I got following error message.please help. Error:0*80040705 source:DotNet40 please email me : *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 16, 2014

I have been trying desperately to get Movie Maker back; when i tried to download Wlarp, I got it but when it opened it said “There is a problem with one or more of your Windows Live programs…”

Split from this thread. Hello. So for the past few hours, I have been trying desperatly to get Movie maker back. I uninstalled it cause i wanted to update it and so fourth. But I tried everything that was said or reccome …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 16, 2014

Live movie maker help

Movie Maker was running fine until I installed Windows Essentials last month (and I've tried just eliminating, but whatever problem it cause seems to be undeletable). Now get the message: Sorry, Movie Maker can't start. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

Movie Maker missing images and black. just started.

I've been running Movie maker on Windows 7 Ultimate without problems for a while now. I have many videos in my library. when I recently went to edit some of these, I found missing files and the entire video strip is blac …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

Photo Gallery crashing

Hi there! Can anyone assist me! I cannot edit photos in Photo Gallery and it is driving me crazy... We have a new laptop with Windows Essentials 2012. As soon as I open Photo Gallery and try to make some amendments to a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

Movie Maker: has audio but no video

Good morning! I have a problem about my movie maker because i can't see the video but the audio is playing. And the worst is the black screen seems to be disable thats why i cant saw the video. Please help me to fix it b …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

Movie Maker: has audio but no video

Good morning! I have a problem about my movie maker because i can't see the video but the audio is playing. And the worst is the black screen seems to be disable thats why i cant saw the video. Please help me to fix it b …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

moviemaker

Good morning! I have a problem about my movie maker because i can't see the video but the audio is playing. And the worst is the black screen seems to be disable thats why i cant saw the video. Please help me to fix it b …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 15, 2014

Movie maker help!!!

Help please. I cannot open my movie maker. Every time I open it it closed straight away with an error message saying 'Sorry, Movie Maker had to shut down unexpectedly. Please restart it, then try again. Error: 0x80004005 …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 14, 2014

Windows Live Gallery

I'm unable to log into my Windows Live Gallery. I keep getting told that it is no longer available because of "security issues". Personally, I think the thieving employees are using this excuse to keep the photos for the …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 13, 2014

Windows Movie Maker

I need HELP! I have published the movie I made on Movie Maker to a DVD-R but it will not play in my DVD player. Does the disc have to be a DVD-RW? Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I am definitely not a geniu …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 13, 2014

Audio Out of Sync While Editing

I'm editing a new video with still photos and music. I'm trying to bring photos up and have them it time with and relating to the music. While I'm editing Movie Maker the audio will only be in sync if I start from the be …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 12, 2014

How can I get my previously made movies to work?

My hard drive just got replaced on my computer at the Microsoft store. I am not able to open and edit movies previously made on movie maker. The files are there but the music isn't showing and the photos are replaced by …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 11, 2014

Windows Essentials Update

Hello, for a few months now I have been getting a popup several times a day to update Windows Essentials. When I eventually decided to take the update I lost all references to Windows Live Mail on my computer. Every icon …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 11, 2014