Windows Essentials

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How can I reinstall Windows Essentials?

I accidentally uninstalled Microsoft Live Essentials from my pc, but I really need it. Can anyone help me? I really really need the Movie Maker and the other programs for important school work. PLEASE HELP! thx Original …

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

Windows Essentials with Live email

Windows Essentials email stopped working in 2016. This is April 2017, and when I try to email a photo, from my pictures it wants to send using my Windows Live Email, which isn't working anymore. How to I get the pictures …

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

Windows Live Photo Gallery will not sync

I am unable to get my Windows Phot Gallery to sync to my Windows Live account. When I choose to set up gallery sync I get an error code 0x80040a15. Does anyone know how I can fix this and sync my photos?

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

Can’t save movie on movie maker

I want to save a video I just edited, I clicked on "save movie" and then on "computer" but it says I need the full version to do this. I have used this program previously but on another laptop that has Windows 10 and I s …

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

Photo Gallery

Split from this thread. This seems to be gone. Once my current install dies, which it is doing, I will lose access to all the material I creted over hundred and hundreds of hours. At the very least there ought to be a re …

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

Movie Maker

I’m hoping this isn’t a technical question. I have gotten fairly proficient at Windows Movie Maker with importing and editing family home movies. One issue that happens and I don’t know why, is at times when I return to …

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

Deleting duplicate photos in the Windows Photo Gallery

In my photos app (windows 10) in the sources settings, I have several source folders from different drives. Because of this I have many double and triple copies of the same picture. How can I delete these extra copies wi …

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

People Tagging in Windows Live Photo Gallery

I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 and have been able to retain Windows Live Photo Gallery as my default, but the People Tagging feature doesn't work when I open individual photos. Is there a way to get People Tagging worki …

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

Windows Mail setup

Would like to use Windows Mail on a Windows 7 Pro PC. I see there is a folder all ready with the working files under c:\Program Files. The only problem is that there are .mui files for the needed program executable file …

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

Windows Movie Maker for Windows 10

*This is mostly for the Microsoft Company, but all those that agree with me, please comment in your support. Maybe it will motivate them to make this program available* Hello, I've done a lot of research on trying to fin …

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

WIndows Movie Maker only displaying 1/4 of screen

I just downloaded WMM to edit film for a school project, and the content in the timeline/storyboard won't display on the film display on the right hand side of the screen. When I try to view the content I've put onto the …

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

windows movie maker error 0x87160139

ive done it before but now suddenly I cannot. every time I try to edit a mp4 type file I get all the way to publishing and end up with yellow caution triangles dictating my file is either corrupt or not supported. I can …

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

Movie Maker Stopped Working when I try to open a file

Hi, I'm running Windows 10 & haven't encountered this problem before. Every time I try to open any file besides a .wmv I get the message that movie maker has stopped working. I've tried to convert the files to .wmv but i …

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

Microsoft Movie Maker

There is no sharpness, contrast or colour setting in Microsoft Movie Maker I'm using at the moment. Mark.

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

photo gallery

i have windows 8.1 , when i open photo gallery i get a popup that says "photo gallery has stopped working " and then my only option is to close the program . This just started 2 days ago . I've tried deleting contents of …

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

Slow loading of clips to the clip board

I've loaded 220 film clips and photos to the clipboard yesterday, and now when I want to start working on it again, movie maker does not copy all the films clips and photos into the clipboard again. What can I do to rest …

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