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How to use window maker 10 pro. ?

I've just bought movie maker 10 pro.- I created a slide show but when I applied transitions I can only the first picture, all the others are black. How do I fix it ? And when I tired to add some clips .mt2s the movie mak …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 26, 2020

CR3 files

Is there and update available so that I can view CR3 files in photo gallery?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 25, 2020

Windows Live Writer won’t accept password

I am attempting to set up my blogger account on Windows Live Writer. I put in my google username and password for setting up WLW, but it wont accept the password. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 17, 2020

Movie Maker

I just purchased the movie maker app from the MS store. Although it's installed, I cannot launch it, even when I tap in the bar that says "purchased." Can you help?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 14, 2020

merge pictures

I'm looking for a program that allows to combine two or more pictures to eliminate unwanted details (such as people on the move). in the past I used Microsoft Photo Gallery which however is no longer available for downlo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 12, 2020

Import old DV tape from camcorder

I have recorded many DV tapes with my old Panasonic 3CCD camera. I would now like to move them to my PC (Windows 10). On my old PC I had a program called SweetMovieLife from Panasonic, but I cannot find a version for Win …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 11, 2020

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Hi, I have photos saved in my laptop through windows live gallery. i also see in the top right of the screen it says “log in” Does that mean that all the photos I have currently are not tied to my log in? if not, how can …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 8, 2020

Windows Movie Maker Malfunction

Hello, I am trying to split a short video ( 1 minute 45 seconds) and delete a portion of the video so that I can add in another video segment in its place. I was able to successfully complete one "split" (after a lot of …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 7, 2020

Windows live essentials 2012

So I downloaded windows live essentials 2012 to my windows 10 laptop. when I started the installer, it gave me a message saying I needed .NET Framework 3 to install, however I know I have .NET 4.5 Installed. Any help? th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 7, 2020

Add small logo in windows movie maker

I want to add a small logo into the corner of a movie I have created. How can I do that? I tried creating a small image, but it just expands to fill the slide.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 7, 2020

I can’t find movie maker on my computer

Hi, I found out that there is a movie maker program in windows 10 that is build in the computer, but for some reason I can't find it. I've searched everywhere. Can you please tell me how to find it or if I need to downlo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 6, 2020

Movie Maker Distorted Screen

Over the past 3 years, I have had to deal with Movie Maker distorting the screen as I create videos. It kind takes the image and reflects it diagonally and flips it backwards, making it very hard to do any kind of seriou …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 5, 2020

Windows Essentials 2012

Is anyway to recover a video that was made using the movie maker program that was on Windows Essential 2012? I made a family video on it on a old laptop and I stupidly didn't burn it onto a DVD before I sold the laptop. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 24, 2020

WLXPhotoGallery

Updated to version 1909 and ended up with an error trying to use Photo Gallery. Got: C:\Windows\System32\Vcomp110.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try using the program original media …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 23, 2020

Photo Gallery

I know that Windows Live Mail is part of the now unsupported Windows Essentials. I no longer wish to use WLM but want to keep the Photo Gallery app. Can I disable WLM but still keep Photo Gallery? If so, how do I do it.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 17, 2020