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Movie Maker has music items that don’t appear

I am trying to save my movie, but it always fails at the very end. I stripped out all the labels and music. I think failure may because of lost music? When I add one song, the label at the bottom says music item 1 of 19, …

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Windows Live Photo gallery issue

I have the most recent Windows 10. I was at the site viewing and organizing my photos. Moving some into separate folders listed which I could easily do. All of a sudden they disappeared along with the view of all the pho …

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Windows Live Photo gallery issue

I have the most recent Windows 10. I was at the site viewing and organizing my photos. Moving some into separate folders listed which I could easily do. All of a sudden they disappeared along with the view of all the pho …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 16, 2017

Windows Live Photo gallery issue

I have the most recent Windows 10. I was at the site viewing and organizing my photos. Moving some into separate folders listed which I could easily do. All of a sudden they disappeared along with the view of all the pho …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 16, 2017

Can Windows Live Photo Gallery be set?

I want to change the auto settings so that when I attach a device to my computer that this device isn't automatically scanned for photo or other media. Can this be done and how? For instance I don't want to automatically …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 16, 2017

Windows Movie Maker doesn’t load a video

Hello there. So I have install Movie maker to convert video files from ".wotreplay" into movie file. But I cann't load this format in Movies Maker and it says that "movie maker doesn't support the selected file type". Th …

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Photo Gallery Sign-In Trouble

Whenever I try to sign in to my Photo Gallery a pop up appears asking for my Pin. There is no location to enter a pin. I do have have the two step verification on my phone. When i try to enter a pin as the password it st …

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Movie Maker Not Opening Any Audio Files

My movie maker has suddenly stopped opening any type of audio files. I have tried opening several different file types that it supported (.mp3, .wma) but it always tells me the file type is not supported. Any ideas what …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 15, 2017

Saving movie make project prior to DVD burn

Hi everyone, I am having real difficulty saving my movie maker project before I burn it to DVD. It gets approx 13% through the save each time & then says that there are missing or unusable files in the project. All of th …

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Alternatives for Windows Movie Maker?

Hello, I have been told that when Windows Movie Maker will be discontinued, Microsoft will launch a new version in the Windows Store, as said here. However, I have yet to see what you have came up with. Do you have a rep …

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editing a Moviemaker video

Recently i edited a 2 hours video by adding text. It is on an MP4 file. I want to create a new video by reducing the existing one by about 75% and taking out the music overlay. What is the easiest way to do this? Moviema …

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Windows Essentials

updated windows essentials 2011 to 2012. Now cannot access. How do I go back to 2011?

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Windows Movie Maker – 2017

We have always used Windows Live Movie Maker to make slideshows, but have recently updated our laptops to Windows 10. I went to Windows Essentials to download the older version, only to find out it is no longer supported …

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

Refresh Descriptive Tags

When I put descriptive tags on photos using Photo Gallery, they show up as keywords in Lightroom. However, if I change the keywords in Lightroom, the changes do not show up in Photo Gallery. Is there a way I can force Ph …

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Pictures story board

Windows movie maker in the story board the pictures appear so many times as seconds have set as duration. That makes me difficult to arrange the order of the pictures. I did something that set the pictures in that way bu …

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Windows 10 Live Movie Maker Won’t Open

We got a new computer in August 2016, Dell XPS with Windows 10 Pro installed. I went to use the Windows Live Movie Maker today and it will not open. Any ideas on how to get it to work? Thanks!

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

Windows 10 Live Movie Maker Won’t Open

We got a new computer in August 2016, Dell XPS with Windows 10 Pro installed. I went to use the Windows Live Movie Maker today and it will not open. Any ideas on how to get it to work? Thanks!

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

Photo Gallery graphical glitch

I am running Windows Photo Gallery on a Windows 10 machine and it works fine except when I use the "Next" and "Previous" commands it does not display the next or previous image correctly. Instead it will display parts of …

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