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Will Microsoft Make A New Windows Movie Maker

As of January 2017, Microsoft ended support for Windows Movie Maker including the Windows Essentials Suite. I want to know if Movie Maker is dead or if Microsoft is designing a new version of it.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 27, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

I can't download movie maker 2012 because windows essentials 2012 have stopped working. What can I do to download it?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 26, 2017

my movies don’t safe

We have been making movies with the movie maker since 2008. Now the movie makes does not save my movie. I want to save it as an "wmv" file, so I can burn a DVD to watch on our DVD player. It gives me different error mess …

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

Photo Gallery Program

When using Windows Live Photo Gallery, the fine adjustment tools to color, tint, exposure, brightness, shadows, highlights, contrast, temperature etc. used to be to the right of the photo under the edit window. I've some …

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

Webcam issues and crashes when clicking new project

I can record with a webcam with no problem. Looks and sounds great during recording. When I click stop the video I just recorded will usually load directly onto movie maker for viewing or editing. This never happens now. …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Hi I have a Surface Pro 4 running windows 10, and have no Movie Maker and cannot find a download for it anywhere... It says on your website that its no longer supported, is there an updated version or another Microsoft s …

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

Exporting – Movie Maker

Hello So i have recently been unable to export some videos, and i don't understand why, it is saved as a wlmp file and i am trying to export it as a MP4 file, i can click on export but it stays on 0% when it shows the pr …

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

Movie Maker – drag and drop narration doesn’t work

When I record and save a narration, it goes as a brown clip to the MM's editor frame. However, if I drag-and-drop the same audio file from a folder to the editor, it shows as a green music clip, not a brown narration cli …

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

Reinstalling Windows Essentials

Split from this thread. If we reinstall window essentials, will we maintain the contacts, folders, rules, etc.? ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***

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

What is a similar program to windows movie maker??

Since windows thought it was a great idea to remove one of their best programs, does anyone know any other free video editing software that is similar? I unfortunately cannot afford a paid version at this moment and time …

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

Microsoft Photo Gallery

I had Photo Gallery on my old computer, running Windows 10, and used it often to scan things from my printer. Now I have a new computer, running Windows 10, and I'm told I can't download Photo Gallery. Why is that?

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

Microsoft Photo Gallery

I had Photo Gallery on my old computer, running Windows 10, and used it often to scan things from my printer. Now I have a new computer, running Windows 10, and I'm told I can't download Photo Gallery. Why is that? ***Po …

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

Live Movie Maker File won’t open or corrupted

Obviously Live Movie Maker 2011 has issues with corrupting movie files, and this has now happened to my movie project file saying that it can no longer open and may be corrupted. Everything was running smoothly until I w …

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

Live Movie Maker File won’t open or corrupted

Obviously Live Movie Maker 2011 has issues with corrupting movie files, and this has now happened to my movie project file saying that it can no longer open and may be corrupted. Everything was running smoothly until I w …

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

Windows movie maker

so I have this installer for windows essentials that I got quite a while ago and I recently factory reset my windows 8.1 computer and it wont let me reinstall it the main thing I want is windows movie maker but I cant se …

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

Windows live photo gallery

I cannot WLPG in my latest updated version of windows 10 I have tried to install a version I found on the internet but got an error. I have also tried to look at the control panel "add programs/features" without luck I p …

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