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digital movie clip

my old laptop a dell running windows xp crashed and I was able to save off my old digital movie clips from my old pc and restore them on my new pc running windows 8 When I open the movie clips in window media player or m …

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movie maker glitches or flickers

Movie movie maker will flicker or glitch while in movie maker and when I save the movies. I know it's not the clips because when I watch the clips over again in movie maker it glitches at different points in the movie. O …

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movie maker glitches or flickers

Movie movie maker will flicker or glitch while in movie maker and when I save the movies. I know it's not the clips because when I watch the clips over again in movie maker it glitches at different points in the movie. O …

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Windows 8.1 does not work with Windows Photo Gallery?

I have been very disappointed with Windows 8 and now 8.1. The Windows Photo Gallery opens with an ERROR message and that is it. It is non functional. Microsoft has an obligation to make this product workable. I need a fi …

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Sound yes, video no.

Hello, I just bought a PC with windows 8. It also came with a CyberLink program to watch DVDs and Mpeg files. I have stored, over the years lots of MPEG 2 files. These MPEG 2 files I can see in CyberLink DVD player, in W …

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What is error 0x80040607?

hello i cant install windiws movie maker because of error 0x80040607... I wonder what does this error mean? and how can i resolve this? thank you!!!

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Photo Gallery

How to uninstall Photo Gallery in XP w/sp 3? Also, how would I know if I had SQL 2005 Compact Edition and Windows Imaging Codecs., that is listed in specs? How to get it, if I don't have it? I have plenty of space, thats …

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How do i cut a large video into smaller videos

Help. I am completely confused on how to use movie maker. All i need to do is take a super long video and cut it into three. I have no idea how to create start and end points. It looks like i did them, but then it fails …

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Windows Movie Maker black screen

I recently just made a movie in Windows Movie Maker 2012 and after I had made my final edits and after I published to YouTube, I saw that the YouTube video screen was completely black, but the audio still played from my …

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windows live photo gallery

Installed, uninstalled, and reinstalled. Still messed up. The color of the entire screen is off, it's pink and green, and so is any other program that I open when I minimize PG. I can't even take a screen shot. The pixs …

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Windows Live Movie Maker credits problem

I have created a movie with credits in movie maker. When I play it in the preview, it looks fine, but when I save it, the credits cut off. Roughly the last page of text does not appear in the scroll, but the movie is sti …

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Sorry movie maker cant start

I was having problems with windows live movie maker crashing so I updated all the updates related. then movie maker live disappeared from the start menu and was replaced by movie maker. which prompts a warning that my co …

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Windows Photo Gallery: Photo Fuse?

I have two equal sized photos which I want to join together, one of the 'south bank' of the Thames one of the 'north bank' of the Thames in London? Taken from the same location, same level view point, 'linking' the two ' …

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Updating Photo Gallery software level

I cannot find a way to update Photo Gallery. There must be patches, fixes and upgrades that are available. Or, is Photo Gallery also included in the tons of Win 7 upgrades I see being applied when I do a shut down? Thank …

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Can’t view photos is gallery

I just opened Windows Live Photo gallery and when I double click on a picture, I get an error message that says "An error is preventing the photo or video from being displayed". Can anyone help me figure out how to fix t …

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unable to run slideshow in Photo Gallery

Unable to run slideshow in Photo gallery -whenever I try the Windows Security Warning pops up with this message "This page is accessing information that is not under its control. This poses a security risk . Do you want …

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movie maker won’t save my movie past 38%

please help! I've used movie maker before with no real issues I couldn't figure out. I have worked for hours and hours and hours, editing videos and setting them to music of my daughter's entire 1st year of life. I have …

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