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date on file chanes

Whenever I open my pictures in Photo Gallery, whether or not I change anything or even look at the photo, the date stamp is changed, so when I want to only backup my changed photos, my backup software shows that all the …

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date on file chanes

Whenever I open my pictures in Photo Gallery, whether or not I change anything or even look at the photo, the date stamp is changed, so when I want to only backup my changed photos, my backup software shows that all the …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 2, 2014

window 7 movie maker

windows 7 movie maker doesn't load. error message: "Bad image. C:\Windows\system32\d3d10_1.dll contains an error. Re-installing didn't help.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 2, 2014

Movie Maker

I want to remove all of the music and start over. When I drag the music to start and end it doesn't go where I want it to go. Also, is there somewhere I can know what the music is, without having to listen to the song as …

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Movie maker makes no sound

I am about to kill my computer or commit suicide - I am trying to create a movie in movie maker - which is suppose to be simple - but the sound is not working. I have read advice and tried everything I have read - conver …

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GROUP EMAILs REPEATEDLY NOT WORKING

I am hoping that some Microsoft staff will see this post. I am FED UP with group emails in live mail not working. It's practically every time I want to send an email to one of the groups (e.g. categories). Just last week …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 31, 2014

Windows Move Maker Not Playing or Working Properly

Prior to today, I was using an older version of Windows Movie Maker and everything was fine. In an effort to get outlines on my captions, I upgraded to Movie Maker 12 today and it has been awful since then. First it is u …

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

Sound editing

Is there a way with Movie Maker to edit out a brief portion of the sound while not deleting any of the video?

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

movie maker mf dll is missing windows 8.1.

movie maker mf dll is missing . I can't start movie maker. Also windows media playes is not working. Only VLC media player is functional. II bought my computer with windows professional 8.1 installed and functional., I d …

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

Issue regarding Windows movie maker

My operating system is windows 8 and when I install the windows essential I am getting MessengerPhoto GalleryMailWriter but not the movie maker.( During the installation I am checking the check box near windows movie mak …

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

Does People tagging a photo and then removing the tag leave that photo as “Dont show again”? I can’t get it to show back up for batch tagging and/or for suggestions? How can I start over “fresh”

I didn't like the way I had originally tagged some people (names I had given them) and also I had made some errors in accepting suggestions. After seeing it was more labor intensive to change some of the ways I had origi …

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

Does People tagging a photo and then removing the tag leave that photo as “Dont show again”? I can’t get it to show back up for batch tagging and/or for suggestions? How can I start over “fresh”

I didn't like the way I had originally tagged some people (names I had given them) and also I had made some errors in accepting suggestions. After seeing it was more labor intensive to change some of the ways I had origi …

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

Does People tagging a photo and then removing the tag leave that photo as “Dont show again”? I can’t get it to show back up for batch tagging and/or for suggestions? How can I start over “fresh”

I didn't like the way I had originally tagged some people (names I had given them) and also I had made some errors in accepting suggestions. After seeing it was more labor intensive to change some of the ways I had origi …

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

Movie Maker audio

I'm an "oldie" who has successfully used Movie Maker for many years to compose DVDs of holidays, grandchildren etc., combining video and stills and adding music. I was always disappointed at the lack of facility to "dub" …

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