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Black Screen on Windows Live Movie Maker

I recently tried to make a video about a family vacation I took. The problem I'm experiencing is that there is a black screen on the preview window when I add a video. I've read many reviews about this and it seems that …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 15, 2017

Cant save my movies on Windows Movie Maker

Hi there I have just bought my Windows Movie Maker. I seem to have a problem where I can't save my videos. The system will prompts - You don't have permission to save at this location (Desktop). Contact the administrator …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 14, 2017

Micrsoft Photo Gallery 2012

I know Microsoft withdrew support for Windows Live Essentials 2012 last January. I have continued to use Photo Gallery but I now have a screen message "Photo Gallery has stopped working. A problem caused the program to s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 12, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

I am unable to upload a Windows Movie Maker video to Facebook on my Dell 8.1 laptop. I use Internet Explorer and Google as my browser. I have tried Google Chrome with the same results. I changed the video to MP4 and it s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 11, 2017

Movie maker 2012 full version. Problem with editing

I have just purchased a full version of Movie maker 2012 I have used another copy of the software which I have now unfortunately deleted and have had no problem in editing video clips without effecting the quality. Now w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 11, 2017

Windows Live Photo Gallery

When I try to send photos in Windows Live Mail using the Photo Email button in Windows Photo Gallery, it doesn't work. I have to, instead, send the photo as an attachment. Can I reconfigure the incoming/outgoing server t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 10, 2017

Windows Live Photo Gallery

When I try to send photos in Windows Live Mail using the Photo Email button in Windows Photo Gallery, it doesn't work. I have to, instead, send the photo as an attachment. Can I reconfigure the incoming/outgoing server t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 10, 2017

Problems installing Windows Essentials

Split from this thread. So what do we do now? I have windows 10 and need to be able to crop, compress, bulk rename and resize images. What can I use to do this? The photo app in 10 is a glorified Snapchat editor and pret …

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windows movie maker

i was editing a video on windows movie maker and then i left, with my computer on for a few hours. when i got back, my computer had restarted and now i cannot find the video file saved anywhere. i would assume that it wo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 9, 2017

Windows Movie maker

I'm a video editing virgin-I received a video in this format:NAME-video-1.mp4 It's too long and needs multiple edits throughout. I transferred it to Windows Movie Maker and am confused. How do I remove a section, i.e. .5 …

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