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Movie Maker – won’t let me sign in

Hi, I am trying to upload a video to YouTube but when I click on 'Sign in' on the top right hand side of the window nothing happens! I have tired to 'repair' Windows Live, uninstalled, installed the program files and the …

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Movie Maker keeps crashing

I am using Windows 7 64-bit and actually reinstalled the os as Movie Maker is so important to me. It was crashing before and it's still crashing now even after a clean install of Windows 7 and Movie Maker. Below are some …

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Movie Maker keeps crashing

I am using Windows 7 64-bit and actually reinstalled the os as Movie Maker is so important to me. It was crashing before and it's still crashing now even after a clean install of Windows 7 and Movie Maker. Below are some …

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Windows Essentials 2012 Microsoft Offline Installer

As of this morning, January 11, 2017, Windows Essentials 2012 download offline installer is still available. This report will be updated daily. Windows Essentials 2012 Support Ends January 10, 2017 Release Notes on Windo …

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Movie maker and windows essentials

This is kinda long and confusing but I will try to simplify it as much as possible. So to start I am on my brothers computer trying to install movie maker which I have on my computer and when i downloaded it, it was supe …

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Movie Maker transition effect disappears

When using Movie Maker, the transition effect does not appear correctly. There is no problem when using the first source, - use more than one source - Click on another source and click on the first source again. The tran …

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live movie maker

When playing the video on my computer it all works fine, when I put it into Movie Maker the sound is making a loud hiss noise and the audio is very slow. I went to videos I already had in Movie maker and some worked fine …

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Change text color on Windows movie maker

Why is it that you come out with software that works fine and no problems with the running of the program. Then some one changes the format of the program and stuffs it up. A fine example is Windows movie maker for Windo …

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Windows moviemaker

Can't play MPG files in Windows movie maker, I can play MTS. Does Microsoft have a conversion down load for the problem?

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Photo Gallery – image meta-data

Hi, This is a question more than an issue. I am interested in understanding what metadata is stored within the application and what is stored on the files themselves My tendency has been to add captions, locations, tag p …

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Windows Movie Maker Upgrade Gone Wrong

Hello, I recently upgraded to the most recent version of Movie Maker (2012 Build 16.4.3528.0331?. However, it now says I have a trial version, I have been using Movie Maker since I originally got my laptop as a gift arou …

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Windows movie maker on windows 8

Hi . I m here for looking for an answer for my ques. Yesterday I made a movie in windows movie maker on windows 8 and windows essentials version is 2012. And I want to upload it on youtube directly from movie maker so I …

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Windows movie maker on windows 8

Hi . I m here for looking for an answer for my ques. Yesterday I made a movie in windows movie maker on windows 8 and windows essentials version is 2012. And I want to upload it on youtube directly from movie maker so I …

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Windows Movie Maker on XP

I am trying to sync an old video with the audio. It is off by a third of a second. Aggravating. My XP machine is a Dell Dimension 8300 with 2gb ram, P4 processor. The video is in WMV format and 49 minutes long. It took 2 …

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Windows Live Movie Maker WIN 10 error 0x87260103

I am making a video from several clips shot in MP4 format. I can load the clips into Movie Maker and can trim them just fine. The issue is that when I playback all the clips together, some of the clips go black and the h …

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Windows Live Movie Maker WIN 10 error 0x87260103

I am making a video from several clips shot in MP4 format. I can load the clips into Movie Maker and can trim them just fine. The issue is that when I playback all the clips together, some of the clips go black and the h …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 7, 2017