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Windows Crashing after copying and pasting?

I'm having an issue with Movie Maker on my windows 8 laptop, which I refuse to upgrade to windows 10. I am perfectly able to open up Movie Maker, and I can add captions. The problem begins when I select a caption and cli …

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Issues with ContentCreateDate for video files

Windows Live Photo Gallery ignores ContentCreateDate and creates one more ContentCreateDate in the matadata if I adjust date/time. I also tried to write the below listed tags into the file's metadata but "Media created" …

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windows movie maker won’t install

i downloded the offline setup of windows movie maker.when i try to install it says you have the latest version of windows essentials.plz help out i need windows movie maker

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 8, 2016

windows movie maket won’t install

i downloded the offline setup of windows movie maker.when i try to install it says you have the latest version of windows essentials.plz help out i need windows movie maker

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 8, 2016

error “Gone No longer available”

I'm using Windows 8.1 and I have been using Windows Live Movie Maker and WonderShare video editing software for years to upload videos to YouTube with no problems. For the past three days when I try to upload any video I …

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error “Gone No longer available”

I'm using Windows 8.1 and I have been using Windows Live Movie Maker and WonderShare video editing software for years to upload videos to YouTube with no problems. For the past three days when I try to upload any video I …

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Easy movie maker

Hello, I don't seem to be able to work out easy movie maker for Windows 10. Is there any tutorial. Thanks. ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category. Post was also modified in compliance to the Mic …

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Movie Maker Saving

Whenever i try to save a edited movie it will go up to 3% saved or sometimes 90% saved then i get an error note saying there isn't enough memory to save the movie. Even though i have a minimum of 30GB available out of th …

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Movie Maker Saving

Whenever i try to save a edited movie it will go up to 3% saved or sometimes 90% saved then i get an error note saying there isn't enough memory to save the movie. Even though i have a minimum of 30GB available out of th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 6, 2016

photo gallery not supported

I just read on the Wikipedia website this statement: Windows Photo Gallery (formerly known as Windows Live Photo Gallery) is an image organizer, photo editor and photo sharing app. It is a part of Microsoft's Windows Ess …

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pan and zoom

In windows movie maker 2012, how do I remove a pan and zoom feature which was accidentally applied to the entire project? Thanks for your help.

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Windows Photo Gallery can’t Start

Hi, I have a Windows 7 Professional and for some reason I can't get Photo Gallery to start. When I try to, I get an error message. The FixIt is outdated so that option is off the table. I tried reinstalling it several ti …

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Windows Photo Gallery can’t Start

Hi, I have a Windows 7 Professional and for some reason I can't get Photo Gallery to start. When I try to, I get an error message. The FixIt is outdated so that option is off the table. I tried reinstalling it several ti …

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Photo Gallery tools

All I am trying to do is download more tools for photo gallery on Windows 10. I took a class on editing photos by going into "create" but there is no way I can find to download the tool to stitch a couple pictures togeth …

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Photo Gallery tools

All I am trying to do is download more tools for photo gallery on Windows 10. I took a class on editing photos by going into "create" but there is no way I can find to download the tool to stitch a couple pictures togeth …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 5, 2016

Movie maker not working

"It looks like another program is preventing the installer from working" "Error: 0x80070643" "Source: crt90-amd64" Please help me out!

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Movie Maker – Publishing to YouTube

I am having problems with Movie Maker when publishing to YouTube - it saves the video and says publishing. Gets to publishing 100%, finalises upload, then a dialogue box pops up with "Your movie was not published because …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 4, 2016

Windows Movie Maker

Hello, I am looking to make a video /slideshow (music and caption) from a picture file. I have a PC running on Window 10, please let me know how I can load the Windows Movie Maker (Essential 2012). I click on the downloa …

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