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Windows Movie Maker and MPG files

I am running Windows 10 and noticed that Movie Maker won't show videos that are MPG (only audio). I read other posts that say to download converter software but my antivirus program blocks them as malware. Can anyone sug …

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Tags in Photo Gallery

Hi I changed tags on some photos that live on my desktop using my laptop accessing via my network. These changes do not appear when I view the photos on the desktop but are there when I access the same photos via my netw …

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Window Movie Maker

Hello, My Window Movie Maker Did not Support all video File. How i can resolve this problem tell me. Thanks

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Photo Gallery stops working

Can bring up Photo Gallery for approx 10 seconds before I get "Photo Gallery has stopped working". Happens every time without fail. Tried it while commected to the internet as well as stand-alone. No difference. Have abo …

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Why are my pictures stuttering?

I've been working on a slideshow project in Windows Live Movie Maker, and it always works just fine in Movie Maker itself. All of the pictures have an animation (zoom out center, pan up, etc.). When I save the project, t …

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Movie Maker

might there be a software program available that can be downloaded to replace Windows Media Player? Would like to make movies like I used to using Windows 7. Is there software that can be purchased commercially for downl …

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Movie Maker ??

When I open the movie maker that I have installed on my laptop, it has a pop up when it first opens that says " sorry movie maker cant start. Make sure your video card meets the minimum requirements, update the driver fo …

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Movie Maker from windows essential 2012 on windows 7

I spent many hours with the Movie maker and found very strange behavior. 1. When I have pictures and video clips randomly in the project then it stops at the start of the first movie clip while saving for DVD; saying tha …

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Trouble getting Movie Maker to save completed movie

I've completed my movie and now when I try to save it for high definition TV, I get an error message that I don't have enough space on the drive to save the movie which is ridiculous. I've tried both file formats to no a …

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movie maker- publishing

movie maker is making me sign in microsoft and I rang microsoft this morning and they now longer support it [Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category]

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Windows Essentials

i have the MovieMaker app but I get the message WLXPhotoBase.dll missing, how can I fix this problem? I am using windows 10 64bit. please keep the answer simple(ish). Many thanks in advance Paul T

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Getting the message WLXPhotoBase.dll missing

i have the MovieMaker app but I get the message WLXPhotoBase.dll missing, how can I fix this problem? I am using windows 10 64bit. please keep the answer simple(ish). Many thanks in advance Paul T ***Subject edited for c …

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photo organizeing soft ware

I had "windows live photo gallery" on my old vista system. Will it work on my new dell computer it has "Windows 10" on it. Or is there a better Photo Organizer for Windows 10?

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Movie Maker time froze

I was finalising my video of 17 mins when all of the sudden, Movie Maker crashed. Some videos are not being played anymore and the time on the preview window stopped at 51.83. Whenever I delete videos at the start of the …

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Please help! My wlmp file doesnt want to open no more.

Anyone please help. I have been working for 3 days on a project and today movie maker can`t open it no more. It would be crazy to start again. here`s a link to the file : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgMXKalC5liLkh7HQuhs7UmP3O_j …

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Movie Maker

I don't know how to put a picture overlay (snapcode) in the corner of my video. ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***

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Photo Gallery and Windows 10 and iPad

I have used Photo Gallery with Windows 10 and my iPad for two years. All of a sudden, in the last two months, it just picks which photos to download and misses the ones I want the most, of course. Any ideas?

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