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Movie skipping after being saved as movie file

Have been working on a video project, that runs smooth until I save it as a video file. Once saved, there were 3 spots with "skips" or "glitches". These spots ran smoothly on the camera file as well as on movie maker and …

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

Movie Maker Vidieos Corrupt 7/19/2014

My Movie Maker files have become corrupted. Having read other question - it seem this is a prevalent event for Movie Maker. Simply what it the fix for this bug. It appears from the posts that this problem has been around …

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

Movie Maker Vidieos Corrupt

My Movie Maker files have become corrupted. Having read other question - it seem this is a prevalent event for Movie Maker. Simply what it the fix for this bug. It appears from the posts that this problem has been around …

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

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How do I change the order of the photos in a photo gallery slide show?

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

Cannot find saved files on Windows Live Movie Maker

I edited 3 Youtube videos on Windows Live Movie Maker and saved all three hoping to combine all three into one. I can find the files in a search on my pc but cannot find or add them to a new project on Windows Live Movie …

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

Cannot find saved files on Windows Live Movie Maker

I edited 3 Youtube videos on Windows Live Movie Maker and saved all three hoping to combine all three into one. I can find the files in a search on my pc but cannot find or add them to a new project on Windows Live Movie …

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

Photo Gallery Freezes upon loading

I have been having trouble with photo gallery off and on for a couple of months now, and I am hoping I can find a solution once and for all. Most of the time when I attempt to open photo gallery, it says it is loading an …

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

Photo Gallery

Windows 8.1 (Windows Essentials 2012) Can no longer select more than one picture to make either an Auto Collage or Panorama. Selected "Repair" Windows Essential 2012, but problem remains. (Anything to do with a missing D …

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

All files corrupt at end of movie?

I have spent many hours working on a video that is about at the 14 min mark now. I am so close to being complete. Along the way a couple of files corrupted and I was able to work around it and not use them. I now have ab …

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

Attaching pictures from Windows Photo Gallery to email

The problem is stated in the "Title Box " I would like to send an email with several pictures attached If possible the pictures should first be changed to Jpeg If I could transfer to flash pen the change to Jpeg is autom …

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

WMM Error 0x887A0005

Hello, I keep getting this error when I try to add images to my project. The thumbnails appear with the yellow error triangle and the message says "The file might be corrupted or in a format that Movie Maker doesn't reco …

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

WindowsEssentials/PhotoGallery error 0x80004005

Hello all, Photo Gallery won't start...error 0x80004005. I just noticed it today. I haven't used it in awhile. Also, my picasa doesn't work either (thought I'd throw that in). Movie Maker works. Media Gallery works. In t …

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

Issues with “Tags” in Photo Gallery

I am trying this as well but do not get an error. I use Windows Explorer to browse to my picture files and right click and select properties. I then go to the details tab and enter information under 'Tags'. These tags do …

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