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Cannot Accept Windows Essentials 2012

After installing Windows Essentials 2012, I cannot accept the license agreement, no matter how many times I click "accept", nothing happens. Possibly related: Also when I install Office on this particular computer, the i …

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RE touching Photos

Hello There, When re touching photos, with Photo gallery - how do I choose the colours?

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Movie Maker can’t start.

Just downloaded Movie Maker. It won't start. I get this: Sorry Movie Maker can't start. Make sure your computer meets the minimum requirements before trying to start Movie Maker again, and then try to update the driver f …

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Movie Maker wont start

i recently wiped my computer because of many issues with malware and viruses, I downloaded Windows Movie Maker, because it was one of my favorite programs. Unforchently, when i went to open the program, i received this m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 1, 2014

Movie Maker same problem again

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker-program/movie-maker-suddenly-not-working/dbbc3b73-cb76-4077-9e62-0d865f7fb0e7 I had posted the post as above. The solution was to uninstall update KB2670838 …

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Information pane in Windows Gallery not seen

I have Windows 7 and Photo Gallery and have been using it for many months without any trouble. In the tag and caption pane I have been able to see the Information pane with file name, date etc. All of a sudden while work …

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Windows Live Movie Maker – Project Files Invisible

Please help! On the left hand pane, the movie that I have thus far edited still plays but on the right hand pane appears completely empty even though it has a scroll bar, the status bar says 70 items selected and the vid …

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movie maker caption

Hi, windows 7 movie maker When you put the caption in the movie, it's associated with the time line instead of the frame, therefore, if you add a slide or two in the beginning of the movie, all the captions are no longer …

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Live Movie Maker audio problem

I have built video with pics and everytime I add my audio track, it chops it. Should be 4:35 but only 2:50 or 3:00 will import. I've tried multiple times. What is the problem?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2013

My video becomes choppy when I save it–what do I do?

My video becomes pixelated and choppy when I save it. I tried looking at whether my video driver is outdated, don't understand another thread's instructions on looking for codecs, but my computer is fairly new so I don't …

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Movie Maker Transcoder has stopped working

I've had this problem when trying to import a media file to work with, I record and edit some bits of gameplay and upload them to YouTube. On certain recordings for some reason I get the messages almost instant saying "m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 30, 2013

DVD Maker For UK use please

Hi All, Can somebody please advise once I have created live movie maker as how do I put it onto disc so I can view on my home DVD player. I have windows 8 and there is no facility to burn to disc ? I have saved to my pic …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 30, 2013

movie maker damages files during saving proces

I uploading all files I need to movie maker, completing my video, check it over - every think fine. Then start to save the movie and in the middle of the process, it stops and report me back that one file is missing or c …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 30, 2013

splitting and copying movie clips

I made a movie 'project' using the 2011 version of Windows Live Movie Maker, then when I upgraded to Windows Essentials, Movie Maker - I cannot copy splits that I created in this movie... In the old version of WL Movie M …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2013

windows movie maker

I down loaded movie maker three times. When I check my downloads all I see is wlset-web. I click on the link and a box appears asking if approve of making changes to my pc. I click yes and nothing happens. I've tried eve …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2013