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Windows Photo Gallery.

HI! My name is Tina Brown. I want to uninstall windows photo gallery but I don't have administrator rights. I don't even know how it was installed. I'm guessing through WLEssentials. I can't even reinstall because its sa …

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

Windows Essentials Installation Problems

Two installations failed and now I cannot clear the installers either through deletion or ending the task in Task Manager. Any ideas on how to clear? Restart doesn't do it either.

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

Windows Live Writer not posting

I just got a Windows 8 and have not had success with my posts actually posting to my blog. It thinks about it for a LONG TIME, then it says ERROR its timed out. Any advice? Thanks

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

Movie Maker won’t install on my Windows 7 Laptop?

I'm trying to download Windows Movie Maker 2012, but it keeps telling me it can't be downloaded and comes up with.. Error: 0x80040705 Source: dotNet40 I've checked all the system requirement, which are completely fine. I …

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windows movie maker 2.6 problem

Hi when i open a project on windows movie maker 2.6, and then press play, it plays. But once the video is over, it won't play again. (actually it's if i haven't played anything else or moved anything else yet, it will pl …

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

Windows Movie Maker: Pause Problem

Whenever I pause the video to edit it, the music restarts itself. I just wanna keep editing from where I am in the video. Yet, I have to keep restarting to get back to the point I was at. Can anyone help? It just started …

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Moving Old Folders to New Computer

I have a new computer. All my old photos are on the old computer and on an external hard drive. I have attached the external drive to th new computer. I can now view these photos easily on Photo Gallery. But I know longe …

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Photo Gallery error code: Ox800700b

I know this has been discussed before but I have not seen any suggestions which have solved the problem. I have tried everything suggested including repairing windows essentials but STILL get the same error message when …

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Access Denied on Movie Maker

Hi I have used Movie Maker for the last 2yrs with no problems. I have updated windows essentials too as required. I have a laptop running Windows 7 and I have run a program I bought to make sure all my drivers are up to …

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

Movie Maker

How can or do I remove music from saved projects?

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Windows 7-Movie Maker Cutting Audio

Using Windows 7 Version 2012 of Movie Maker I am trying to start the songs I want at certain parts. Like instead of starting the song at the beginning I want to start it 32 seconds in. I also want to end it at 56 seconds …

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Video Clips in Windows Movie Maker

I am incorporating some video clips into a slideshow which I am compiling in WMM. I notice that after I have done some editing and then view in full screen mode the video clips do not always appear on the screen. Can any …

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Problem with facerecognition

I found the really good program for face recognition in Windows photo gallery. It is very powerful, sometimes to powerful :-) I have thousands of photos and lot more icons created when I started the process. Sometimes th …

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

No sound when recording to WMM with webcam

Hi - can someone help? I'm have a new computer with Windows 8.1. I'm running Windows Movie Maker Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3522.0110). I can activate my USB-connected webcam without a problem, but all I have is the video …

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Movie Maker Consistently Malfunctioning

Movie Maker will continually crash while working on a project, and/or while working on many of my projects, the video turns gray with a exclamation point over it, and all video and audio fails to work. The problem right …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Going absolutely nuts. Have downloaded Windows Movie Maker - and FINALLY succeeded - as far as I can tell. But there doesn't seem to be any icon where I can actually pull up the program. In my downloaded programs I see ' …

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

NV GS27 drivers for windows 7

How to capture video from my NV GS27 camcorder on Window 7 movie maker. I have no devise drivers, nor are these available anywhere.

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