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Windows Movie Maker

I created a movie yesterday using the original movie maker that came pre-installed on my HP Pavilion 6 desktop PC. I am on Windows 7. When I burnt the video to DVD, it wouldn't play on a DVD player, or someone else's com …

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Windows Movie Maker – Cannot launch

I created a movie yesterday using the original movie maker that came pre-installed on my HP Pavilion 6 desktop PC. I am on Windows 7. When I burnt the video to DVD, it wouldn't play on a DVD player, or someone else's com …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2013

Photo Gallery: Merge Photos 2 into 1

Using Microsoft Windows Essentials: Photo Gallery How do, can I merge two photos to create one photo? E.g. A photo of the 'north' bank of the River Thames, London, and a photo of the 'South' bank of the River Thames, Lon …

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Windows Photo Gallery

Advice is needed! When trying to delete photos in thumbnail view or by any other method, the window shows an overlap of two screens and then freezes. Then when I click the mouse button to re-activate the process, the scr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

Windows movie maker- blank saved video

Hello, When I go to save a video on Windows Movie Maker the saving process is just fine but when I click on the video to view it the entire video is just a blank screen with audio. I've tried multiple things trying to so …

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Error uploading to Facebook

When I try to upload a video from Windows Movie Maker to Facebook, I get this error message: The following problem occurred in your movie 0x800488e5. What does that mean? What should I do to successfully upload a video t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

Corrupted Movie Maker File

I have a corrupted movie maker file which I have uploaded to my skydrive. Could someone at support take a look please? Thanks!

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How to give Parental Permission?

I am trying to install MovieMaker on my daughter's laptop. In order do that, I must first install Windows Essentials. The install stops and asks her to sign in to her Windows account, then says she needs parental permiss …

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opening data base files

Hi! All of my photos from different folders in my picture and photo gallery have changed to thumbs. db folders which I cann't open them. There are more than 500 photos that I don't have any copy of them. Please help me t …

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Saved Movie Not in My Videos Library

After saving a movie as I have done many times before, I opened the Windows DVD Maker. My saved movie was not in my videos library so I could not add it and proceed to burn a DVD. The movie is in My Documents Library and …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2013

Burning a disc with Movie Maker 12

When using Windows Live Movie Maker it saved movies as .wmv files and I could burn them to a disc. I upgraded to Movie Maker 12 and it saves them as .mp4 files and now I have problems burning the disc. Please help

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Portrait video won’t render properly

Occasionally my phone records video in portrait mode instead of landscape mode. I am trying to use Movie Maker on my Windows 8.1 laptop to import the mp4 video created by my phone and rotate it to the left 90 degrees. Th …

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Portrait video won’t render properly

Occasionally my phone records video in portrait mode instead of landscape mode. I am trying to use Movie Maker on my Windows 8.1 laptop to import the mp4 video created by my phone and rotate it to the left 90 degrees. Th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Import digital camera images into Photo Gallery

I have a problem with Windows Live Photo Gallery importing images from my old Pentax Optio 330 RS camera which has a Lexar 1GB Compact Flash. Images are .jpg less than 2MB each. Does not recognize the camera when it is t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013

Narration movie maker

there is a red cross on the volume of the narration icon , how can I get rid of it as I am getting no sound? thanks

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Movie Maker – Blank screen on playback

I used the Add Photos function to add photos on the movie maker and also added some music. While on the movie maker it saves properly and previews, when i save it as a movie, Only the music plays and the video is a blank …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 10, 2013