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Says all music file types unsupported

I'm using Movie Maker and it tells me all my file types are unsupported. I've tried AAC and MP3, which aren't supposed to work, and MP2 and it keeps giving me an error as if it doesn't support the file. MP2 files are on …

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My Pictures folder not in Photo Gallery (Windows 7)

I can't view any of the photos in "My Pictures" through Photo Gallery. I kept getting a message that Photo Gallery could not find a folder so I clicked remove and now "My Pictures" in no longer in the Photo Gallery. When …

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Windows Essentials 2012

I have Windows 10 was loaded into Movie Maker. It started poorly run. Deleted. I can not re-loaded.

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E-mails

I downloaded Windows Essentials on my Windows 7. I put the wrong IP address and got an error message. I don't know how to correct this. Can't get the form back to change it.

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Unable to get my REFUND. Please provide my refund.

I had trial version of windows movie maker and every time it used to show the pop up as buy option, So I thought it would be advanced version and on 20 Nov- 2016 I bought the paid version. Immediately I got an email prov …

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Reducing Size of video in window movie maker

Hello, So I was building a YouTube video on my computer. The original size of the video is 18.8 MBs with 30 frames/second and dimension of 1364X768. I added the video to a blank project and clipped about 2 minutes out of …

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PC Crashed- Movie Maker HELP PLS

My laptop crashed recently due to a Windows Movie Maker glitch, and I lost everything I have worked very hard. I was logged into my Live account's email on the app. Since I was logged in on Movie Maker, is there a chance …

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PC Crashed- Movie Maker HELP PLS

My laptop crashed recently due to a Windows Movie Maker glitch, and I lost everything I have worked very hard. I was logged into my Live account's email on the app. Since I was logged in on Movie Maker, is there a chance …

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windows essentials 2012 not downloading properly

i tried to download windows essentials 2012 and it says it downloads with the "most up to date version" however it does not open to the programs nor do they exist when i search through my application/programs I have wind …

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Windows Essentials 2012 is not working properly.

Greetings. I have a problem that I'm having with the Windows Essentials 2012, the movie maker to be precise. When I open the movie maker, this is all that show up, darkness. Just a big black screen.. Even when I re-downl …

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Windows Essentials 2012 is not working properly.

Greetings. I have a problem that I'm having with the Windows Essentials 2012, the movie maker to be precise. When I open the movie maker, this is all that show up, darkness. Just a big black screen.. Even when I re-downl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2016

Movie maker

Marvel Man thank you for your reply, you asked which windows program I use, at present it is Windows 10 pro but the problem started before that when I was still on Windows7. What actually happens is, I can load what ever …

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Movie maker audio

I am doing a family video of old pictures trying to add music to movie maker. I had it working now all of a sudden it says music will start after the last item. it doesn't matter if I make the music shorter or the video …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 30, 2016

Movie maker audio

I am doing a family video of old pictures trying to add music to movie maker. I had it working now all of a sudden it says music will start after the last item. it doesn't matter if I make the music shorter or the video …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 30, 2016

Windows Live Movie Maker & .MOV files on Windows 10

After spending hours making a movie project using photos and a mixture of different video format files, when I save the final project as an HD movie it tells me that the .MOV files are not in an acceptable format and the …

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Windows LIve Photo Gallery

I have a new computer with Windows 10. I am trying to download Windows Live Photo Gallery. I hit the download button. The screen message says that it is preparing to install Windows Essentials. That runs for 2- 3 minutes …

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Movie Maker

Why is it that when using Movie maker my computer switches of ?

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windows live essentials 2011 calendar update fails

I have been running Windows 7, x64 and the included Windows Live Essentials 2011 (now version 15.4.3555.0388) for my email program for years without any problems. Several days ago, I started getting an error message that …

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Windows Movie Maker

When I split a video and delete the portion I do not want, the remaining portion freezes when I try to resume playing. It does not freeze on the next frame, it freezes with the last frame of that particular video. If I s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2016