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Movie Maker Won’t Play Audio

I had my "movie" almost complete using photos and videos. Audio in videos played fine until last night and now NO audio! I need this project for tomorrow and don't know what to do. Can anyone help? Don't have time to do …

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

Autoadjust feature malfunctioning and .jxr problem

Hi all Windows Live Photogallery's autoadjust feature is malfunctioning. Every time I click 'autoadjust', the top left hand corner of the photo is the only part of the image that remains intact. I've attached a sample of …

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

Movie maker run time error

I created a movie for 20 mins in movie maker and when i am going to save t as a movie its coming as run time C++ error, contact support.... How to rectify t??? I have spent many days to create this movie... but now i m n …

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

Can’t log in to WLW/Blogger

Hi! I have had trouble logging in to my windows live writer. After contacting this community, I finally got in. I made an blog post but now blogger won't let me in via wlw! It's a window asking for username and password …

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

Live Family Safety Confirmation Email

I am trying to set up Live Family Safety and am not receiving the confirmation email to continue the setup. It is going to the correct address. The message could be blocked by the spam stopper but I need the domain name …

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

Movie Maker does not playback narration audio

I am recording narration on Movie Maker (on newest update of Windows Essentials on Windows 8), but it has no sound when I play the video. My microphone is properly installed, and it shows the sound wave of the narration, …

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

viewing photo properties in photo gallery

Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone might be able to help with a simple question. I am a very amateur photographer and often take a series of photos using different exposure and aperture settings in order to learn how they …

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

Movie Maker Problems :-(

I have used Movie Maker for the first time and thought it was quite impressive..........until I try to play back what I have saved! One minute, it plays as I saved it, then I went to show it (IN PUBLIC!) and it had no so …

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

Can I add more animations/transitions to movie maker?

I am looking to add more animations to windows movie maker. I would like more options (most importantly 'snapshots' which is on my apple tv and my wife's Mac.) Is there a download somewhere i can add this stuff with (tha …

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

Windows Movie maker

I am using windows movie 2009 on windows7 Professional. When I add a video (mpg) I get the following message: Windows live movie maker has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows …

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

photo gallery

When I click movie maker button up comes import from device and I the box of import photo and the video comes up blank where nothing shows in the box. Is there a web site that has easy directions for using photo gallery. …

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

Movie Maker video too big, how do I reduce the size

I cannot put my movie on Facebook or YouTube or anywhere, it's too big. I made it with my phone camera. How do I reduce the size? I've googled it and and there are many postings but the screenshot I see is not the curren …

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No Audio in Movie Maker?

Hi, I've just spent the last hour trying to convert my .MOV files to .WMVs in the hopes that the audio would work. Sadly, I was wrong, so I came here to look for help. I have absolutely no idea why, this has never happen …

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

Movie Maker – can’t save my movie

I made a 30 second video for school and I can't save it in any format...If I click send via email or facebook or literally try to save the movie in any way this is what happens: click save option "recommended for this pr …

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

Movie Maker – can’t save my movie

I made a 30 second video for school and I can't save it in any format...If I click send via email or facebook or literally try to save the movie in any way this is what happens: click save option "recommended for this pr …

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

Movie Maker has lines in my Video.

I seem to have this slight problem in Movie maker where my videos have lines on them, and I get a double image. They do stay when I view the video after saving. Here's a picture of the problem. Thanks, Colin

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

Transitions in Windows movie maker

Hi there, I don't know what is the problem with the transitions. I used to work a lot on movie maker without any problems. After formatting my pc and reinstalling WMM, I've got this problem: When i first add photos , i c …

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

Windows Calendar

How do I put my Windows Essentials Calendar on the taskbar or on the desktop without going through my email account every time? I want it to open directly to my calendar.

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

Help! Movie maker wont open

Hi, my daughter has a school project where she had to make a book trailer using movie maker, she created it on a laptop at school using windows 7 and saved it to her USB drive brought it home worked on it at home on her …

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