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Problem trying to open Screen recordings

Split from this thread. Okay, so, what if you were able to get Movie Maker and put it on Windows 10? Because I have the same problem trying to open Screen recordings.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 2, 2017

Windows Movie Maker stops Live Mail working

On a TOSHIBA laptop I have Windows 8.1 and use Live Mail. Yesterday I downloaded Movie Maker and it performed the task I required. But afterwards I found that Live Mail was not available to use. I ran System Restore, rem …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 1, 2017

Windows Movie Maker replacement?

So I heard recently that Microsoft has ended support for Windows Essentials 2012 on January 17th, 2017. From the end of support, programs like Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, etc will no longer be updated. I been using Movie …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2017

Windows Essentials

Hi, My laptop got a really bad virus resulting in a factory reset. I understand that windows essentials is no longer available however, i require movie maker. Does anyone have the installer saved? I need a life saver.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2017

no audio in movie maker-windows 10

I'm editing video but cant ear the audio tracks anymore. I've already tried restarting the audio in SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS. I also tried re-setting compatibility to Windows 7 and Run as Admin in the Windows Live folde …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 31, 2017

Photo Gallery disappeared from my computer

Split from this thread. Before Photo Gallery was shoved down our throats, we had Picture Manager, which was a great program ("program" is what us old guys used to call what is now referred to as an "app", which is short …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 30, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

I've made a movie in the Windows Movie Maker trial version. I need to save it as an MP4 file. You can't do this on the trial version, but the newer version is no longer available for download. Does anyone have any advice …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 30, 2017

Photo Gallery stopped working

Split from this thread. That being said, I am running Windows 10. Before the last update, I was able to use Photo Gallery. Not Now! Whatever it was that they decided to "fix" on it because they "thought" we would be bett …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 30, 2017

Movie Maker Crashing

I need help, after saving my movie maker file, I went back to open and received the following message. (A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 29, 2017

movie maker

Movie maker stopped working, has anyone else experienced problems with the software today?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 29, 2017

movie maker

I have imported pictures from a USB card and clicked save as and gave my file a name. once I eject the USB the pictures are no where to be found. its a bunch of triangles with exclamation marks. what am I doing wrong?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 29, 2017

windows live essentials 2011

I am trying to download windows live essentials 2011 on my windows 10, and every time it's preparing for installation it fails, the error is that there is no internet connection, while there is. Also windows photo galler …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 28, 2017

Video editing

I have Windows 8.1 in my pc. What is the software I can use to edit my video? I used Windows movie maker on Windows 7. Is there a similar software for Windows 8.1? Where can I find it?

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

Windows Live Transcoder has stopped Working

Day 5. I get a pop up notice that Windows Live Transcoder has Stopped Working when i upload a ppt with animation /converted to a wmv video file to Windows live Movie maker. I can upload single jpeg images withy no proble …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Hello, I have Windows movie maker version 2012. I am unable to adjust output audio bitrate. Due to this, movie maker by default adjusts the bitrate to 118 kbps, resulting in poor voice quality. I would like to have solut …

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

windowsliveessentials2011

I uninstalled windows live essentials 2011 I was sent to explore.com for a free download to get it back but no luck where or how can I get this back in my windows 7 home computer for free

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

Windows Essentials 2012 re Movie Maker

I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 10. I want to download and use Windows Movie Maker as I did on my previous laptop. From what I can tell, Windows Essentials 2012 is no long available for download. I can't find …

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

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Hello! I used to work with Windows Live Photo Gallery every day! I find it useful and easy to manage. Recently I made a clean install of Windows 10 and tried to re-install the Photo Gallery. I am now extremely disappoint …

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

movie maker

Is it possible to fix clips to certain points on a video timeline? I'm trying to make a music video and want to place a certain clip at an exact point, in synch with the music track. It seems impossible to control where …

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