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Recover my account

I lost my Win movie maker when I was making changes in my computer. Anyway I had an account , so I downloaded again the win movie maker, but now I cant recover my account because they are asking me my registration code, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 7, 2021

windows photo gallery,

why oh why was this taken off the best photo editing software for my needs simple easy and quick not like the new replacement. what is everyone else using

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 7, 2021

Movie maker fails

I purchased Movie Maker in good faith that I could continue using it on my new laptop. But when it comes to rendering a project, it fails at the end of its conversion to either default file format. It says that files are …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 3, 2021

Why is windows 10 movie maker so bad?

I am having a problem in a VM where i am trying to edit a video clip, but it won't let me. (this is windows xp.) I tried the windows 10 movie editor, and it did still not work. it has all of these sort of helpful things, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 30, 2021

MSWMM file extension

I have an old Windows Movie Maker file with a file extension of MSWMM. I am trying to find a way to convert it to a viewable file since Microsoft has discontinued Movie Maker. Any suggestions for Windows 10 OS?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 17, 2021

Win 8.1 Photo Gallery Printing Problem

When I try to print from Windows Photo Gallery the picture ends up only printing the sides, the middle is blank.We tried printing both pictures and documents from other programs and do not have any problems. This seems t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 29, 2021

Playback is upping the brightness of my video.

I just recently bought Movie Maker Pro. I'm trying to edit a speed paint for youtube and for some reason even when I don't have any filters applied, the brightness just gets boosted way up whenever I play it back and wat …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 25, 2021

Color issues in Windows Movie Maker

Ever since this week, whenever I use Windows Movie Maker to make a new video, it seems that some of the colors are gone, as seen in this picture:Does anyone know what can I do to get the colors back to normal?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 18, 2021

URGENT: Help Repairing a Corrupt WLMP File

Hello community,I know that Windows Live Movie Maker and the other apps in Windows Live Essentials got discounted, but I still use it today for editing my videos. Movie Maker crashed and luckily I had a project file back …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 17, 2021

movie maker 10 pro not working

i bought movie maker 10 pro and my computer (dell G5 desktop) said that the files did not exist and the microsoft store where i bought it from says i still need to buy it. can some one help me figure this out.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 15, 2021

Movie Maker

After I save my movie, it says: Movie Maker Stopped Working. But Every time I want to put Cinematic AutoMovie Themes, It stopped working It says: Sorry, This Takes longer than expected. Can you close Movie Maker? But aga …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 14, 2021

Burning the original aspect ratio in Movie Maker Pro.

Trying to burn DVD video taken from a cell phone. Everything works fine except when I play back the DVD the video fills the TV screen. Changing the aspect ratio on the TV does not help because 4:3 aspect is still way to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 27, 2021

Moviemaker gray bar project

I have been using Movie Maker for years with no problems. Until a few days ago I got the message that Movie Maker was not closed correctly and I had to reinstall the last project. I am familiar with this reporting and af …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 27, 2021

Cannot save project with Pro version.

I just purchased Movie Maker Pro and created a project. When I attempt to save the project it says "Folder access denied. Could not create a folder for the project." I have plenty of space on multiple drives.I started th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 27, 2021

Movie Maker 2.6

When I import a WMV file into it, WMM 2.6 changes the 'portrait aspect' of the video to a 'landscape aspect' rendering the video file useless.How can this unwanted change be prevented? If the change of aspect can't be pr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 25, 2021