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How to Unsort by Size in Photo Gallery

I have been sorting my photos within each folder by caption or filename. Somehow I accidentally made my photos within folders sort by file size. This is interesting, but now I want to sort a different way, preferably by …

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

Importing photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery

During importing photos to Windows Live Photo Gallery the images appear as tiles at the stage of 'Review, organise and group items to import' and 'Select the groups you want to import'. Despite selecting the groups the i …

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

webcam permission

I just installed Windows 8.1 64-bit. This is weird because I've used Win 8.1 before and don't remember ever having to give my webcam permissions to specific apps. However, when I launch Windows Essentials - Movie Maker, …

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

webcam permission

I just installed Windows 8.1 64-bit. This is weird because I've used Win 8.1 before and don't remember ever having to give my webcam permissions to specific apps. However, when I launch Windows Essentials - Movie Maker, …

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

Movie Maker Format MP4 to WMV

When creating movie clips and saving them to computer they are saved in MP4 format. In order to use the movie clips with Windows DVD Maker I must convert them to WMV. Is there a Movie Maker setting that will automaticall …

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

Change in format of photos

I recently updated to Windows 8.1. from XP and now use Photo Gallery but have to say I, like many others, wish we could go back to the simplicity of XP. I edited a number of photographs in Photo Gallery and duly saved th …

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

Help with Sound in Movie Maker

Hi, I am putting together a video where I am using a couple of different video clips, photos and music. I edited everything together and matched up the audio I wanted to use perfectly so everything is in time (The people …

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

Video is way out of time with the music

Original title: Help with Sound in Movie Maker Hi, I am putting together a video where I am using a couple of different video clips, photos and music. I edited everything together and matched up the audio I wanted to use …

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

movie maker …fix it.

Hello" I have tried to make a movie in movie maker several times now but there is no video recorded just audio could you help me fix this problem....I am using a HP computer that I just bought a refurbished machine windo …

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

How to ‘cut away’ a part of the movie

I would like to 'cut away' one or a number of parts of the movie from somewhere in the middle. It is like editing content; keeping some scenes and deleting the other. When I start the 'Trim Tool', and select the 'Start P …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 13, 2014

Saving Movies in Moviemaker

I have edited my video clips in Moviemaker and saved it using the recommended setting, but cannot play the saved file on my computer. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium. The idea was to copy it to a flash drive and view …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 12, 2014

“Movie Maker missing…”

Like many people I have tried the suggestion trying to repair movie maker...Doesn't work. Is this another program that MS will no longer support? Allen Cable Colorado Springs

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 11, 2014

Movie Maker Not Working: Error code 0x8000405

Alright so I used Movie Maker before with no problem at all until just today out of the blue.. Even attempting to open it by itself, the program crashes immediately.. I've tried looking at other solutions based on this e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 11, 2014

Movie Maker Not Working

Alright so I used Movie Maker before with no problem at all until just today out of the blue.. Even attempting to open it by itself, the program crashes immediately.. I've tried looking at other solutions based on this e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 11, 2014

Plug-Ins for Windows Live Writer?

I've been using Windows Live Writer for several years now and have a few plug-ins (Flickr4Writer, Text Template, Word Count) that I rely on. I just got a new Windows 8 laptop - I was able to install Windows Live Writer j …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 11, 2014