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Windows Movie Maker – for Win 7 or Win 10

Windows Movie Maker was discountined 1/2017 and offline tool does not work. Does anyone know how to get "safe" copy to install? I had to reset a Win 7 computer that was upgraded to Win 10 last year and crashed a few days …

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Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Photo Gallery used to search my computer for all pictures. I do not see this feature anymore? Does anyone have this problem?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 25, 2017

Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Photo Gallery used to search my computer for all pictures. I do not see this feature anymore? Does anyone have this problem?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 25, 2017

Movie Maker

Hello. I am trying to use Movie Maker on Windows 10 and on my Windows phone. The files won't open... on my laptop, they load forever with no error message. On my phone, I get the error: "Video could not be decoded" . I g …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 25, 2017

Movie Maker

I am a novice when it comes to editing existing videos. A friend told me Movie Maker was a good start. Where can I find a very simple explanation on how to use this software? All I plan to do for now is remove parts of v …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 24, 2017

Lost work in Movie Maker

I was working on a project in Movie Maker. This is the 3rd day of editing a film. I had saved the work from the other 2 days. I was nearing the end of working today when all of a sudden the film segments on the right wen …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 22, 2017

Noise in Movie Maker

Hi, my movie is ful of noise and hiss. How can I correct that in Moviemaaker? ***Subject edited for clarity by the moderator.***

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 21, 2017

MOVIE MAKER

I HAVE NOW PURCHASES MOVIE MAKER. SINCE THERE IS A COST ASSOCIATED, WILL THE PROGRAM EVER BE IMPROVED TO THE POINT OF SAVING TO DISC???? ( AS IT USED TO BE)

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 21, 2017

Moviemaker Fade Out

I want to make a simple movie with just two effects - a fade in from black at the start and a fade out to black at the end. I would have thought this was about as simple a task as you can carry out. Cannot do it. I have …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 20, 2017

Photo Gallery Replacement

I recently did one of my semi-annual re-installs of win10 to clean up all the crap MS insist on putting on my hard drive. Now I find that Photo Gallery is no longer available and the SQL 2005 server is needed to run Movi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 19, 2017

Microsoft Photo Gallery Photo Export

Is there a way to export photos from Microsoft Photo Gallery along with the Caption from each photo? Or, can you import photos and their caption into PowerPoint from Photo Gallery? I have hundreds of photos with captions …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 19, 2017

Windows Live Photo Gallery for Windows 10

I have a new laptop with Office 365 installed and had Windows Live Photo Gallery on my old laptop. I cannot seem to find where to download the program successfully. **Thread moved by the Moderator to the appropriate cate …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 19, 2017

Microsoft movie maker

I have just recently purchased Microsoft Movie Maker. I am trying to make a stop motion video with about 350 pics. When i save the video, i get the error 'there isnt enough memory for this'. Why does it come? My harddisk …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 18, 2017

Microsoft movie maker

I have just recently purchased Microsoft Movie Maker. I am trying to make a stop motion video with about 350 pics. When i save the video, i get the error 'there isnt enough memory for this'. Why does it come? My harddisk …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 18, 2017

Windows Essentials Livemail 2012

I have been using windows essentials livemail 2012. Recently about half of my incoming emails had an error message and I was unable to read them. I went to one of your help sites and it said to uninstall the windows esse …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 18, 2017