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Windows Photo Gallery out of focus using 8.1

Trying to use Photo Gallery but Toolbar, Title bar, Menu bar and photos are all fuzzy. The rest of the applications on the computer are perfectly sharp. Is there any way this problem can be resolved? This used to work pe …

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

Can’t save Movie Maker movie 2

I have Movie Maker for Windows 7 & when I go to save it just hangs at the save status bar icon, but the bar does not move. It's also greyed out. My project is just JPEGS ( 6 in total, all around 70-120 kbs each) with a f …

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Can’t save finished movie from movie Maker

I have Movie Maker for Windows 7 & when I go to save it just hangs at the save status bar icon, but the bar does not move. It's also greyed out. My project is just JPEGS ( 6 in total, all around 100-200 kbs each) with a …

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

Movie maker split tool is not working correctly

I'm making a video in movie maker and have been using the split tool to delete out sections of unwanted video successfully. When I got near the end of the video I clicked the split button and it made the timeline/storybo …

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

Won’t play audio on WMV files

Windows Movie Maker will play my .wmv videos, but no audio. Earlier today, the same videos played just fine (sound + picture) on the video player app on Windows 8 (don't know the name of the app.) I just checked again, h …

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movie maker tech question

I imported a movie from a cd that plays well on media player to practice editing it on moviemaker, but the scenes played very choppy. How can I fix this? The sound and audio were both choppy. thanks

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Error 0x80040705 source dotNet40

I've been trying to download Windows Movie Maker 2012 several times and none of them really worked. What is error 0x80040705 and what do i have to do about it? I have disabled the firewall before and nothing changed. I'm …

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Windows Live Writer – how to find previous posts

I took my PC down to factory settings, to try to solve some problems. I restored my backup before re-installing Windows Live Writer. Now when I try to open previous drafts, the program does not find them. I also can't fi …

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error0+8007007e

I have no access to any photos and all my icons on screen have the photo gallery picture on them and when trying to open all come up with error 0+8007007e Desperate can amoe one help a senior please, with a simple explan …

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

Windows 8 MovieMaker

How do I change frame duration time in Movie Maker for Windows 8. I add jpgs but can't find any answers for Windows 8 Movie Maker,what a mess. Tks all

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

Windows Esstiential April 26, 2014 is messed up?

I've been fighting a very slow Visual Studio problem for the past 4 hours and finally I figured out the problem. I've been using VS 2013 express everyday for the past year. NOTHING changed on my machine from last night t …

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Remove previously added audio

I added an audio file to a jpg in Movie Maker for Windows 8 Now I want to remove the audio file and add a replacement. I get error msg. saying it can't delete because movie file is using it. Do I have to completely delet …

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Disabling ‘Looking for people tag suggestions’

Whenever I open up a picture to edit in Photo Gallery, on the down left side there is always a 'Looking for people tag suggestions' always slows my laptop. I don't even want or need this feature and I really would like t …

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

windows 8 Photo Gallery

I imported photos and video off a dvd. `156 files Pictures and videos When I now open Photo Gallery I do not see the file menu on the left side that is suppose to show the different pictures folders and video folders. Th …

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Can’t see preview or save movie maker project.

i did a project which included a bunch of clips from a whole movie (of about 2 hours). while i was editing the clips, i can't see the preview on the right panel which makes my work really hard. but worse of all, i cant s …

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Movie Maker has black screen but Audio working

Movie Maker not function properly in Windows 8.1, it shows only black screen with Audio working, I have installed Windows Essentials 2012 repeatedly but no luck, I don't want to use convertors to convert my video clips a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 25, 2014

Movie Maker has black screen but Audio working

Movie Maker not function properly in Windows 8.1, it shows only black screen with Audio working, I have installed Windows Essentials 2012 repeatedly but no luck, I don't want to use convertors to convert my video clips a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 25, 2014