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Movie Maker

This is my first time trying this. I have it together but want to add/subtract different pictures. I cannot get to the spot where the pictures show up together where they can be moved or deleted. At the front of the firs …

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

geotags and windows8.1

Have just got a new lappy with 8.1 pre-installed. Came to edit some pictures, taken on a good camera, auto saved in Dropbox. All the EXIF info is on both sites. Pulled some in to Photo Gallery to edit only to find that a …

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

MAKING DVD IN WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER

I have made a movie using photos and music and burn it to disc. The disc will play on my computer but for some reason will not play on any DVD players which are attached to televisions so we can watch on a larger screen …

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

movi maker black display on timeline

I am running Movie Maker[version 2012(Build 16.4.3508.0205)] on a laptop running windows 7. I copied the project files, movie clips, photos and music from my computer. The preview window does not display the movie clips, …

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Movie Maker Can’t Start

Hi everyone, I have read through the movie maker posts here and updated my driver but I am still getting the same error message (can't start, asking me to check minimum requirements and updating driver, which I have done …

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

Movie Maker

1. When I use 'Add Music' and add an Audio MP3 file of duration 2hrs: 2min:47 sec, the Movie Maker automatically cuts it down to 1hr:48min:59 sec. Thus the last 14 minutes of Audio gets cut. I tried with different Audio …

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

MOVIE MAKER FILE WON’T PLAY

HI, I have been working on this file for two days. It was all finished and ready to go. I clicked saved and as I went back to play it to make sure it was all ok, the files started to go white and dissapear. I closed movi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

Photo Gallery not working with Flickr

Flickr has changed there API and I'm not able to use Windows Photo Gallery to load to there site anymore. I've talked to flickr and they say it's cuz of there new API and that Windows Photo Gallery has to update before i …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

Photo Gallery not working with Flickr

Flickr has changed there API and I'm not able to use Windows Photo Gallery to load to there site anymore. I've talked to flickr and they say it's cuz of there new API and that Windows Photo Gallery has to update before i …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

Video not playing on Movie Maker

I've been through a couple of different forums trying to find the answer with no luck in solving my problem. I am running Windows 7 Live Movie Maker, and the audio plays but the video does not. It is a 30 second wmv file …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

No printing companies in area – Photo Gallery

I have ordered from CVS many times in the past. Today, when I went to order some new prints, I got message that there are no printing companies in my area! Anybody have an idea what is going on? Original title: Ordering …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

I cannot download Windows Movie Maker

Hello, everyone. I'm Anika. I use Windows 7. I downloaded the Windows Essentials, but Photo Gallery and Movie Maker were not downloaded. They showed the error 0x80040705. I tried re-installing, but it was of no use. I tr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 27, 2014

Windows_live_Movie_Maker

I'm running windows 8.1 and down-loaded "Live movie Maker". How do I know I have the Latest Version. When on look in the control panel under programs I don't even see it. When I down-loaded it I choose windows 8 and it w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 26, 2014

Windows live movie maker

I used Windows live movie maker several times, even when saving clips from my android phone to my PC in the same format, MP 4. Whenever I wanted to play those clips I would just click on it and a window would open up and …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 26, 2014