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Windows Live Movie Maker won’t open on Windows 7

Hi, I posted this problem about 10 days ago and am still waiting for a Forum moderator to get back to me so I can send my log files by private message. Can someone help me please? I have a problem which a lot of other pe …

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

Windows Movie Maker 2.6 Help

Okay. Well. I'm a youtube person who makes a lot of anime videos and such. And revently I've been working on one called Naruto Shippuden - This Is War Amv. And I always used wmm 2.6. But I've created 45 other videos usin …

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Problem inserting a picture into blog

I am trying to place a picture into a blog using Windows Live Writer. The picture comes from a website url but I keep getting this error message when pasting the url into 'insert web image "Preview is currently unavailab …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 18, 2014

Photo Gallery reduces file size of tagged photos

Problem I just installed Windows Photo Gallery 2012 (WPG) since I decided to use it for photo organizing. However, when I apply any type of tags to my photos using WPG there is a significant reduction in the file size of …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 18, 2014

MM Won’t Open after updating drivers

I originally made a movie but it didn't show the video part of it. I read that it was a video driver issue. I reinstalled the latest drivers available for my laptop. Now Movie Maker wont even open. Keeps telling me I don …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 18, 2014

Windows Movie Maker for Windows 8.1 won’t start

Hello, I have installed Windows Movie Maker for Windows 8.1. When I run Movie Maker, it says Windows Movie Maker can't start. I have up to date drivers, and my laptop meets all the minimum requirements, I have tried many …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 17, 2014

Default email for sending video to facebook

Before I had my own Facebook account I had previously posted some pictures and videos on my mothers facebook account. Now that I have my own facebook account everytime I go to post a video from my computer, or actually W …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 17, 2014

Posting videos/photos to Facebook from Photo Gallery

Original title: Default email for sending video to facebook Before I had my own Facebook account I had previously posted some pictures and videos on my mothers facebook account. Now that I have my own facebook account ev …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 17, 2014

PhotoGallery

I have been using photo gallery for years and for some unknown reason I suddenly cant seem to view any photos in it. I have checked and my libraries are still active and correct. Any suggestions?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 17, 2014

Windows Live Movie Maker Video Stuck Skipping Randomly

I recently started a new project in Movie Maker, and when I imported my videos (which work outside of Movie Maker with no problems) they randomly start skipping at a certain point. The sound continues on but the video se …

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

movie maker for 8.1 not recognizing files

I created wmv and mpeg movie files with my movie maker for vista. Now I updated to movie maker for 8.1 and this new version is not recognizing the files that were previously created by the same software. Also the mswmm f …

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

Windows Movie Maker Picture Not Correct??

Hi, when I first used movie maker to add pictures, there's something a bit weird, when I used movie maker to add photos they didn't go exactly on the video, whenever my movie got loaded to the photo it showed the photo b …

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

Video won’t play smoothly

Hello, I took some video on a camera, saved it on an SD card, then loaded it into my laptop. The video plays smoothly on Media Player, but is all jerky on Movie Maker. What is up with that? Help, please.

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

Can’t receive incoming emails- error 4402

My wife and I share an email account. I receive/send my emails on my PC without a problem. My wife cannot receive emails on her PC, the error is 4402, WLM error Ox8DE0002. All the account settings are identical. I tried …

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