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GPS Name database

I understand that the names database which populates the Geotag field in PG derives from Bing Maps. But the utilization of that database is incomplete, as I discovered today. In tagging my vacation photos, I was able to …

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windows movie maker won’t open

When I open windows movie maker, It works for a few min and then stops responding. I close the program, and when I try to open it again, by clicking on the shortcut, nothing happens. Please help! thanks <Windows 8.1>

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movie maker

when i make a movie from my photos and add music, the music dosent play well, it cuts in and out, any suggestions

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Live Writer and Amazon Product Links

My computer recently updated and now I can't copy individual product links from the Amazon Affiliate program into the bottom of blog posts composed in Windows Live Writer. I don't understand how to fix this.

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Movie Maker

I just installed movie maker and I'm lost, please help, how do I get started

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Error while saving project in Windows live movie maker

When i save a project i choose the reccomended for movie setting to save as i post to youtube. But i have tried saving the same video and about 3 quarters of the way through the save a window appears saying windows live …

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Cannot clean up contacts online

I want to clean up my WLM contacts online, because when I try to do it within the desktop WLM every time I delete a contact it jumps back to the top of the list. Painful. BUT when I click Contacts and then click Clean Up …

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Look of Folders not written heading

Can I get the look of showing Folders of each picture topic instead of the written heading with all the thumbnails showing? Like in the 'old' Photo Gallery.. where you see your titled Folders and you click to open which …

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cant send emails after downloading movie maker

I am using Windows 7 and recently downloaded Windows live essentials as wanted to use Movie Maker. It has updated my live mail to 2012 version and now I cant send emails. Can receive email but when try and send or reply …

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Black edit screen

Hi everyone! The question I have has already been posted : My Windows Movie Maker display screen is black? but since there is no answer I am going to ask again. I think a picture speaks for itself: That's how my Movie Ma …

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Music in Movie Maker

When I use microsoft Movie Maker, I cannot sync my still pictures with the music I add to the movie. At the beginning of some pictures the music skips. How can I correct this?

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Movie Maker error 0xC946001E – Please respond

I can play a .wmv movie in window media player but when I try to play it in movie maker I get the above error. I am trying to make some movie clips from the movie for a powerpoint presentation. Please help.

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Windows Movie Maker

Can anyone HELP pls. when I open a project on Windows Movie Maker (WMM) it shows "missing files" when I browse for missing files find them, then open them, WMM then inserts them into time line but then proceeds to close …

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Blue Eye in Dog Photos

Is there an easy way to correct for blue eye in photos of my dogs, like red eye in humans, using Photo Gallery?

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