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Unable to sign into Windows Live through Live Writer

I am trying to create an online album using WLW on my Blogger blog, I am prompted to sign into Windows Live when I try to I get an error message "Bad User name or Password" even though I can sign to WL through a tab in m …

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HELP! Microsoft’s infamous Windows Movie Maker bug where it won’t open your file out of nowhere because it’s “corrupted or the project file isn’t compatible” according to the error message

UGH! I want my project back. I have LITERALLY been LABORING over a video for the last month, making sure to save it along the way at every other second so I wouldn't experience any problems; however, Microsoft has made s …

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User Live Writer with a custom written blog

Hello, I am looking for answer to this question: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/live/en-US/f10913d5-557e-4f62-bee4-9b9f5267a88c/use-live-writer-with-a-custom-written-blog?forum=wlwdev citing, Hi, I my own homepa …

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Tags view?

In the version of Windows Live Photo Gallery I have on a Windows 7 machine, the program shows Date Taken, People Tags and Descriptive Tags on the left side under the included folders. To filter by tag, all I had to do wa …

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HELP!! Windows Live Movie Maker error: 0x87260103

I finished editing my project and would like to save it as a video, but I keep receiving error messages: 0x87260103 and 0x87160139. I've looked up several forum posts about the same issue, but /none/ of the suggested ste …

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Editing photos in Photo Gallery

I click on a thumbnail to open a photo in Photo gallery, no problem When I then click on Edit, Organize or Share, it opens every photo on my computer as a thumbnail I just want to edit my one photo not every one on my co …

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Recording and importing audio files

Apologies for asking such a basic question, but how can I record an audio file which can be imported into Moviemaker as a commentary? I'm working with students who can't read or write, but who would love to add a spoken …

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Import to PG

When I click on Import I get " Photo Gallery has stopped working" Any suggestions welcomed Many thanks.

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windows live bex error straight after install

I have installed windows essentials multiple time using both online and offline installer tried clean booting but am still having the issue. I have tried opening all the separate programs associated with this and they al …

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Slideshow incorporating video clips

I am creating a slideshow in Movie Maker which includes a number of video clips. However, when I play back the show when there is a transition from a still image to video the preceding image is visible but the video is n …

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Slideshow incorporating video clips

I am creating a slideshow in Movie Maker which includes a number of video clips. However, when I play back the show when there is a transition from a still image to video the preceding image is visible but the video is n …

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Windows LIVE Photo Gallery Update

I have an older Laptop with Windows Vista. It came with Windows Photo Gallery and has been good enough until recently when I got a different camera which is requiring me to 're-size' the photos before I can share them on …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery Help

I transferred photos from my iPad to my PC by copying and pasting. Some of the photos were cropped or edited on my ipad, but on my PC only the original, unedited photo appears. When I open the photos with windows live ph …

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Windows Photo Gallery 2006 and Windows 8

This may seem like an incredibly silly question but is it possible to download the original Photo Gallery (2006, that came with my old Vista laptop purchased 2007) onto my recently purchased laptop that has Windows 8. I …

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Changing names within Family Safety

We've been using our PC for ages with only one user account, but in an effort to sort out the parental controls at last we created another account, made it the administrative account and turned the old one into a standar …

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Windows Photo Gallery Printing Problem

I am trying to print a picture in color using Windows Photo Gallery and my HP Office Jet G85 printer. I have Color selected (not Black and White) under Printer properties settings when I attempt to print. However, the pi …

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