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Movie Maker Snapshop Quality

Hi. Can you help me? I've used the snapshot feature quite a bit over the years but something odd is happening. On my latest project, I took a snapshot (png) & it's really sharp & clear no matter how much I enlarged it - …

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

Will not diplay one of my videos

I made a movie yesterday and saved it as a project. Everything displayed fine, when I opened movie maker today I was told Microsoft Essentials needed to update. Now my first video clip will play but the second just displ …

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

Movie Maker does not open.

So I have WLMM on my Windows 7 starter. Its the latest version. But whenever I open it, it says "Sorry, movie maker can't start. Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements before trying to start movie …

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

Windows Movie Maker Sound Problems

Has anyone else had this problem? The sound on my Asus 202 Vivobook is fine. No problems. When I add sound to a movie project, it turns off. Sometimes this happens, sometimes not. The sound can be recorded by my voice, o …

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

How can I get my audio file to work on Movie Maker??

The file was originally saved to my computer as W4A. It was a recording from my iPhone. I have converted it to WAV, WMA, and MP3. I cannot get any of these to work. Someone please help! The recording was of my grandfathe …

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

Batch people tagging screen enhancements

Preview Images When in the Batch people tagging screen, you only get a small preview when hovering over a photo. It would be great to have the option to double click on the face and have the full image open. Then have th …

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

Windows Movie maker

How do you remove part of a video ? I seem to only have the option to set the start and end of a video. Want to remove a section in the middle of the video. Thanks.

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

essentials photo download

i have been trying to download essentials photo gallery for two days now, even to someone as computer challenged as i am, it seems a little unco-operative. it STARTS to download, gets to 510kb of 1210kb and just doesnt c …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 9, 2014

Removing a single frame in Movie Maker 2.6

I have edited my video in Movie Maker 2.6. For some reason, it left a single frame between two clips when I cut a clip in two and removed the latter. I have found no way to remove the frame. Is there a way to remove it? …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 9, 2014

How do i overlap 2 audio files in Movie Maker

I am doing a slide show of photos for someones birthday. I have audio files of people talking about the birthday boy from voicemails that i imported onto my computer. I want the music to go throughout the slideshow and t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 8, 2014

WpcMon can be terminated

I have realized that my son's computer time is somehow not being monitored by Family Safety. Further investigation shows that he as a "child" account can use Systemexplorer to terminate WpcMon. Is it a flaw in family saf …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 8, 2014

Movie maker freezing up during project

I have Windows 8 and use Movie maker at least once a week...until tonight. I've got my project up - photos and music and everything was going along perfectly until I was nearly complete and tried playing it back. I notic …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 8, 2014

How can I get movie maker to sync video and audio

I have previously used windows movie maker (a previous version of it from a year or two ago) and loved it. Recently in my new job on windows 7 64 bit I installed the latest version. I have been unable to get movie maker …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 7, 2014

Movie Maker: where is transtion

I just installed Microsoft Essentials MovieMaker 2012 in Windows 8.1. I don't see 'transitions' anywhere? Is it in Video Tools? Where exactly?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 7, 2014

Photo gallery

Why the photos of mobile can't be imported to photo gallery ? When I try to open photo gallery it shows error code : 0x80004001.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 7, 2014

Video deforms after saving in movie maker

I made a 1,5 minutes project in movie maker (Windows Essentials 2012). Playing the project works perfectly allright within movie maker, but after saving the project to a video (in any form available), it totally deforms. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 7, 2014