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Speakers and Headphones are making a static noise

When I boot my computer and I use Spotify or any other program with my computer. My audio is completely normal, whether I use the speakers in my laptop, or whether I use the headphones I have. As soon as I start using Wi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 20, 2014

Yield signs and video won’t play…

I uploaded video from my flash drive and edited it in Movie Maker. The edited segments just show a bunch of yellow warnings where the clips should be and saying the file might not be supported but it gives me the exact t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 19, 2014

Windows 8 and Movie Maker help with MPEG files

I have used Movie Maker for a few years now making videos for my church - no problem. I now have a new laptop that runs Windows 8. I was attempting to make a movie Movie Maker as usual, but the video file played the soun …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 18, 2014

i have W photo gallery BUT!

When i go to upload photos to facebook---, in the publish box I can see a bunch of old Albums, and can scroll them, I dont know how to get them out to see them and Share.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 18, 2014

How to clip sections OUT OF the video

I am trying eliminate sections out my 20 minute source video. The instructions I have seen here say split the video at the appropriate points and then delete the unwanted section(s). How do I delete the unwanted section? …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 17, 2014

Windows Movie Maker Cannot Open MM File

Created video in MM using Windows 8 last year. Worked great. Now it tells me the file is corrupt and cannot be opened. Your support page tells me to put the file on skydrive, set to public, then email you the link. Only …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 17, 2014

Movie Maker – Creating a Slide Show on a CD

I have created a project in Movie maker which is saved as a .wlmp file. It consists of single images(slides) together with video clips and an audio track. I want to be able to "burn" this to a cd so that it can be viewed …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 17, 2014

Windows Live ID password issues.

I can sign into my Windows Live account. However, I keep getting a pop-up for Windows Live Family Safety that when I type the password in (that works just fine for my account) will not work. It just tells me that I have …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 17, 2014

Audio Question

How do I take the sound out of Movie Maker? I just want to do a sports reel without all the bleacher comments. Thank you. Nick

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Windows Live Movie Maker won’t let me open my video?

Hi everyone. So, I spent a good 3 hours working on a video, and then I went to bed. (I had saved the video along each step of the way. No problems.) I woke up this morning and went to watch it again, and I wanted to make …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

trouble with windows movie maker

Hello, I use windows movie maker quiet a bit, but the other day i went to go use it from my desktop ( I cant recall word for word what it had said) but it was along the lines of programs has been changed or moved. So as …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Movie Maker preview is black

Movie Maker was working Okay until I installed Windows updates. Now the preview is black. Someone said to check the video file types, but the preview for pictures is black also so I don't think it is about the video file …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Quiet Naive….New and cant find way to programs

I looked at Tutorials and I guess I am missing something. I have Windows 8 and cannot figure out how to get to my basic programs such as Write and such. Also I downloaded Windows Movie Maker which was included in Windows …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Quiet Naive….New and cant find way to programs

I looked at Tutorials and I guess I am missing something. I have Windows 8 and cannot figure out how to get to my basic programs such as Write and such. Also I downloaded Windows Movie Maker which was included in Windows …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Window Essential problem

Window Essential mess up: At First,I just using the Window Life movie maker and suddenly it hangs and so it keeps on occurring every time I try to save my video. After that,I decided to remove it and reinstall it again. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 16, 2014

Movie maker video on a picture

I am trying to put a video on top a a photo for my outro.... But there is no buttons or anything that i could find... Does anybody know how I can put a Video on top of a picture? Please respond... AND FAST!!!!!!!!!

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