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No audio in Movie Maker

can anyone tell me why both narration volume and video volume are turned off on Movie Maker for me? What have I not connected or failed to turn on? Or is it something I should turn off! Mike and its connections are plugg …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 24, 2014

Cannot find Photo Gallery on my PC

I want to edit some photos on my pc, and searching the web I learned that Photo Gallery has (might have?) the features I need to use. When I search with the Start menu, I cannot find Photo Gallery. "Photo Viewer" I see, …

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

Editing Issues in Photo Gallery

While trying to edit multiple pictures on my hard drive, I am having two issues: 1. The size DOES NOT change even after changing the selections or customizing the size, and 2. After selecting a size and clicking "re-size …

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

I need help with Movie Maker.

I have had Movie maker for several years, and have successfully burned DVD's. I was recently working on old family photos, save the project before exiting each time and on several different times. I was always able to re …

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

Yellow ! in Movie Maker

I have had Movie maker for several years, and have successfully burned DVD's. I was recently working on old family photos, save the project before exiting each time and on several different times. I was always able to re …

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

The audio is sputtering on MP4 files

The audio in some of my videos are sputtering and spitting even though the sound is correct when I listen to them directly on the computer (not in MM.) I have a combination of clips from an android and iPhone that I am e …

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

Photo Gallery

On my Desktop with windows 7 I inadvertently hit accept instead of do not ask me again for windows Photo Gallery to be the program to use for all of my photo work. I was using paint before and have seen gallery because i …

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

Vista DVD Maker & Win 7

I have hundreds of hours of dvd's created with Windows Vista DVD Maker. When I tried to open the projects in Windows 7, I got the error message that the file was not compatible. I've searched the forum for an answer, and …

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

movie maker

Is it possible to combine 2 video pictures into one. What I want to show is a truck crashing into the back of a car. The trim function will not do it. Actually, the start trim function will not even become available. I w …

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

error code ox800106ba

When I try to scan in windows essentials it starts to scan and before it completes I get a error code ox800106ba . can any one assist me.

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

photo gallery problem in Windows 8.1

A simple Question- Will Windows Photo Gallery save its photos or (operate in anything other drive ( like an SD card)) except C:UsersGuildaPictures Library? if it will save them some where else read on--- I have a new Tab …

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

Live Essentials update + Windows Live Messenger

My Windows live essentials got updated yesterday night today in the morning and installed the Windows Live Messenger, does this mean WLM is coming back? Can we finally ditch Skype now? I only hope.

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

movie maker for windows tab

hello folks, Bought ASUS transformer 2 in 1 tablet, tried to install windows movie maker but couldn't find movie maker in it......need your suggestions to make it run on my tablet..... thank you...

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

Cannot login to Family Safety webpage

I'm sorry if I've posted this in the wrong spot but Family Safety doesn't appear as a product of Windows Essentials... Quesiton: For some reason I cannot log into the family safety controls webpage (https://familysafety. …

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

sideways 3.75GB video is too big for Movie Maker

I have a 3.75 GB video that is sideways, it is only 31:22 minutes long. I get a message that it is too big for Movie Maker. After a lot of trials and errors I thought I could upload it, splice it, and then rotate it, but …

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

Photo Gallery/custom crop rectangle question

Hi! In Photo Gallery, is there a way to reduce the initial size of the custom crop rectangle? I crop hundreds of images at a time, fairly regularly, and I have to make the crop selector smaller on EVERY SINGLE image. I'm …

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