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“YouTube returned a bad response”

I just want to upload this 21 second video onto YouTube. I'm logged in, and I'm using the right password and username for this! This happens every time I use Movie Maker! Edit: And no, converting the file to any of the f …

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My Movie Windows Live Movie Maker

I am trying to open previously saved Windows Live Movie Maker projects but programs won't open. It says: "Sorry Movie can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker, or be co …

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My Movie Windows Live Movie Maker

I am trying to open previously saved Windows Live Movie Maker projects but they won't open. It says: "Sorry Movie can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker, or be corrup …

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Photo Gallery Live Essentials 12;

Hi I want no need Photo Gallery back mainly for the collage tool, has anyone actually seen what it can do ? I have been using it for around 2 years to put together bespoke 'montages' people love them and the different su …

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Movie maker blank story board

I started to transfer my old vhs cassets to dvd. I have them in .mpg format. When i try to edit them in Movie maker they transfer but i can only hear the video. The preview is black and the story board is like a negative …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 13, 2017

Problem saving Windows Movie Maker project

Hello, Everytime I try to save my Movie Maker project on my computer, I get an error message and Movie Maker shuts down. I've tried to post it directly into my youtube account and then I get a message of error with the c …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 13, 2017

Movie Maker

I recovered my computer. Now when I tried to open Movie Maker, the message "the directory name is invalid". How can I fix it. Thanks.

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

Photo names in photo gallery

In the past I have been able to see a file name as a number designated as a tiff, jpeg, etc. when I hovered over the thumbnail. Now all I see in that space is Photo. Any way to get back to where I was??? This is using Ph …

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Windows Live email application

Hello I use the Windows Live Email application for three different email accounts. I am running Windows 7 and about three weeks ago my email started to play up. First it wouldn't receive emails but I could send them and …

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Windows Movie Maker Deleted My Work

I was working on a project on Windows Movie Maker for over 3 hours, I saved the project, then I opened it and everything was deleted, Is there anyway I can get my project back?

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

windows essentials

my windows essentials live mail was deleted. I cannot send documents from word or excel. it comes up that there is no program associated with it. Any ideas?

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Videos magnified in windows movie maker

Whenever I try to upload videos into windows movie maker, they all look incredibly magnified when I play them and go to edit them, to the point where you can't see anything that's happening in the video at all. You'll on …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 8, 2017

Unable to install movie maker

I found the link where I can download Movie maker but it says that the file can't be found: Here is the link. https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/help/14220/windows-movie-maker-download

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 7, 2017

Movie Maker saying that my files are corrupted

Every time I try to save my 1 hour long video made out of a few hundred images, at around 80% (once it happened at 20% and 90%) it would say that every image is corrupted but when I restart Movie Maker and go back into m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 7, 2017

Windows Essentials Installer

Knowing that this suite is no longer supported and unavailable for download I ran my backup copy of the Installer. I'm getting an error message: Does this mean I can't reinstall it after uninstalling? John

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Microsoft Movie Maker Clicking Sounds

I've been using Movie Maker on Windows 8 and whenever I put in a video, this weird clicking noise plays and stops after a while. If I play any video or make any noise on the computer, the clicking noise happens again. So …

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Windows Movie Maker gets stuck exporting

Hello, I have been trying to export a video using Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7 for over 10 hours now, and its just sitting on "73% complete". I tried exporting the same video the night before, and it got stuck on 76% …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jul 6, 2017