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Phot Gallery only prints in black and white

Suddenly I cannot print color pictures from Photo Gallery 2012. Printing from other applications works fine. I have checked every setting I can find and cannot change the problem. This is on Windows 7 to an HP Office Pro …

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

Movie Maker Not working

Hello. I have a video that needs to be rotated to be viewed properly, and I know to do that you have to use the Movie Maker. When I go to the start button and type in "Windows Movie Maker" into the search bar, it only sh …

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

Am I asking too much of Movie Maker?

Am I asking too much of Movie Maker? While having 80% success with MM on Win7 with issues similar to those reported here, I decided to buy a new HP with Win8. On the first try, I get green screen icons or green screen re …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2014

Photo Gallery

I was having so much trouble with Photo Gallery that I thought I would try uninstalling it and re-installing it. I used to have WIndows Live 2011, with whatever updates it had over the years. Now I have nothing, and it w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2014

windows live photo gallery

Up until a few months ago, when I wanted to send out pictures to be printed at a store, and clicked on "print", it gave me the option of using my own printer, or several options to send them out. One of the options used …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2014

Movie maker crashes in windows 8

Hi all, for those of you still seeking a solution to movie maker crashing in windows 8 with the message 'movie maker stopped working' or similar, I looked here and had no joy but I found the solution on a youtube video. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2014

Movie Maker loses video when uploaded to Facebook

I have tried several methods, and every time I upload a video to Facebook, when you play it back, there is no video, just audio. This also happens when I try to upload the raw file from my camera - without any rendering …

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

Upload 4×6 photos into Movie Maker

I am trying to scan in 4x6 photos. I run an HP printer to scan. When I save them as either jpeg or pdf and upload them to Movie Maker there is a large white space surrounding the picture. I do not have the option to edit …

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

Windows 7 and MovieMaker Version 2012-Music Skips

Having an issue adding a music file to a movie. During the scene transissions, there is a little "wobble"in the music. I found old forum posts about the same issue, but hoping that five years later there is a better fix. …

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

Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows 7

I use Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. The Movie maker keeps crashing continuously. While I play a slide show of my pictures, after a few minutes I receive an error which says APPCRASH>Windows Live Movie Maker; Fault Module Na …

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Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows 7

I use Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. The Movie maker keeps crashing continuously. While I play a slide show of my pictures, after a few minutes I receive an error which says APPCRASH>Windows Live Movie Maker; Fault Module Na …

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

Movie Maker not running

hello, when running the movie maker i get an error message that the program cannot run on the machine. done all the uninstall / install process several times including clean installation of the entire OS. any suggestions …

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Email link on Photo Gallery

I am trying to link my email address to Photo Gallery. If I select a photo and click on the email symbol a notification firstly asks about the required size, then when I click attach it notifies me that my email is not a …

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

How to Save in Photo Gallery

I am trying to crop a picture in Photo Gallery. When I close the picture it does not save the changes. There is no save button. The picture is not marked read-only when I look at it's properties. How do I save my edits?

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

Preparing files in Movie Maker

why does it take 2 hours to prepare a video that's only 4 minutes long. I can't sit at the computer for hours at a time. I have so many videos to put on there it will 2 weeks to get them all done. Is there anything I can …

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

Movie Maker in Windows 7

I am new to Movie Maker and can see from the threads on the matter that many have had the same issue as me. On trying to open, get the "system cannot find path specified" message. Have followed many of the exchanges; hav …

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

Windows Live Movie Maker to Movie Maker

A few years ago I made some videos for fun with Windows Live Movie Maker on my old win7 computer. I've graduated and am currently going to college, so we bought another computer, also windows 7, and I found that this mac …

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

Windows Movie Maker Troubleshooting

Windows Movie Maker started to lock up while I was using it. I saved everything and exited and then opened the program again. When I opened up my project, the video(s) were missing! on the right it said "browse for video …

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

Windows Movie Maker Troubleshooting

Windows Movie Maker started to lock up while I was using it. Thankfully, I had recently saved my project. I exited the program and then started it up again. When I tried to open up my project, i got error code 80070057 : …

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