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Windows Movie Maker [Program Performance]

I installed the program Windows Movie Maker on my Windows 10 ASUS Laptop. After installing, I opened Windows Movie Maker, this was impossible. The program gives the following [error]"The Program can't start because MSVCR …

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Windows 10 live movie maker Edit Split not working

I am trying to edit using Windows10 Live Movie Maker. I've done this before but it is no longer working. I see the Video Split icon in the tool bar, but it is not lit up ( activated). It doesn't show when I right click e …

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Essentials Photo Gallery has stopped working

Since updating to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, this was recent, I waited until MS did it for me, Photo Gallery has stopped working. This is the version that came with the Essentials 2012 package. It will open but the …

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.mswmm file

I have a very important DVd that i made back in 2007...movie maker. Unfortunately I saved it as a .mswmm file and I can no long view this DVD of my son. I have tried numerous converter sits and downloads which do not rec …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 12, 2018

.mswmm file

I have a very important DVd that i made back in 2007...movie maker. Unfortunately I saved it as a .mswmm file and I can no long view this DVD of my son. I have tried numerous converter sits and downloads which do not rec …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 12, 2018

Photo Gallery – GEOTAGS

I understand that Photo Gallery is slowly going to disappear. Already geotagging no longer works. But I have thousands of photographs that I have carefully geotagged (i.e. assigned a location to, not coordinates) and don …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 12, 2018

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Since windows 10 does not support microsoft essentials and windows live photo gallery, how do I access my photos from there?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 10, 2018

Windows Movie Maker

I have been using Windows Movie Maker version of 2012 to create a 35 minute film including photo, video and audio files of jpeg's, mp4's and mp3's. Up until the point of trying to save the movie, I have had no trouble wi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 8, 2018

MC Movie Maker.

I almost completed a new video of a recent holiday, saved my work. I have come back 2 days later to put in some finishing details and have no vision, the film strips are a pale green with no identity, sound is OK but no …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 8, 2018

MovieMaker problem

I used the MovieMaker to do a montage of photos with background music. Plays fine in preview mode. When i try to save it, the video is purple static and the music plays fine. What's up?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 7, 2018

Capturing Video Clips in Windows Live Photo Gallery

Hi, I've been transferring video from Dat to my hard drive using Windows Live Photo Gallery for some time with no problems. Recently at the end of the transfer I get a dialog box which tells me that multiple files are be …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 6, 2018

Windows Movie Maker

Hello, I have windows 7 and I would like to flip a video I have since it is at a 180 degree angle. I read that I could use Windows Movie Maker, but it is no longer available to download. Where could I find a copy for Win …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 5, 2018