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WLE Install Error 0x80070643 soxe.definitions

Win 8.1 Ult x64 WLE fails with subject error codes and source file. Unable to boot to safe mode as MS instructions instruct to go to PC Settings and the click 'General' which does not exist so that's a dead end. Repeated …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery problem recognizing device

Operating Windows 7 Windows Live Photo Gallery has operated fine for a year - downloading pictures from my Nikon Coolpix S210 camera.......Now all of a sudden it will not recognize my device (it only recognized an HP All …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery problem recognizing device

Operating Windows 7 Windows Live Photo Gallery has operated fine for a year - downloading pictures from my Nikon Coolpix S210 camera.......Now all of a sudden it will not recognize my device (it only recognized an HP All …

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

Video Sizes – Iphone landscape – portrait

i have made a movie with audio (first time) quite chuffed with myself, however as I used an IPhone and daftly videoed in both landscape & portrait when I came to uploading to movie maker I had to rotate some of the clips …

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

Photo Gallery only saving some changes

I have thousands of edited photos. I had to do some updates to my comp at work today (scheduled by my employer). When I opened up a set of photos I wanted to edit, I noticed that only brightness, contrast, and color temp …

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Movie Maker editing

how can I "gray out" or blur a section of the video in Movie Maker ... for instance - I don't want anyone to see the actual time on the clock on the wall I'd like to draw a "box" around the clock and select a pixelated v …

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Confused about Windows Live Essentials (WLE) 2011

I am using Vista Home Premium and Windows Live Mail. I read Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-045 - Important, which states that I should remove WLE 2011. My question is: if I remove WLE2011, will that remove my email pro …

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Family Safety re-install Win7 Pro

I had family safety working great prior to a re-install of Windows 7 Professional. Now try to set up monitoring via the Family Safety software after I choose monitor accounts the only option is to save. When I click save …

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Windows Movie Maker 2012

Hi there, I have been working on a video project in Movie Maker over the past several days. Today I opened the file and the video still plays however I cannot see the items that make up the video...it's blank edit strip! …

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Changing picture durations in Movie Maker

Is there a way to change the duration of ALL the pictures in a project AFTER they've been put on the timeline? I don't want to use the slow down effect because it makes it too slow and changing each picture individually …

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picture shrinks in Movie Maker

I have Windows 7 version of MovieMaker. My pictures download fine from my camera into MovieMaker and I'm working in 16:9 format with JPEG files. The size is 5184x 3456 in MovieMaker. However when I save the completed mov …

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Movie Maker Not Working. Error: 0x887A0005

I'm using a new Acer Aspire 5600U running Windows 8.1 with i5-3230M CPU @ 2.6GHz with 8 GB RAM with x64 bit. So, I added all my photos and music to make a movie. When I tried to save it and ready to burn as a DVD, this m …

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Photo Gallery Collages are now appearing bitmapped

Hi, since discovering Collages I have enjoyed putting together over 50 examples from imported camera photos. Suddenly I find the collage images are being produced as bitmapped images. The camera is the same and the impor …

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How can I get the music to play on Movie Maker 2012?

I am creating a Movie Maker 2012 slide show project of old hard copy photos. I have copied the photos into Movie Maker in the sequence I want, and now I am trying to add music from my PC. I select the Add Music tab, and …

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Movie Maker Tutorial?

Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Movie Maker 2012? I am a new user, and am at the beginning stages of learning photo and other graphics technologies. Thank you for any help you can give me.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 10, 2014