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Windows Photo Gallery

I had my photos in Photo Gallery on Vista when my hard drive crashed, it was all backed up however. On the new PC with Windows 10 all the tags and labels did not carry over! This is a major problem with several hundred t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 26, 2016

Windows Essentials 2012 – uninstalling

Hi I have installed Windows Essentials / movie maker on a windows 10 PC. I used the official Windows site for the download. I'm getting an error saying directory not found. I did the uninstall from the control panel / pr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 26, 2016

Windows Essentials 2012 – uninstalling

Hi I have installed Windows Essentials / movie maker on a windows 10 PC. I used the official Windows site for the download. I'm getting an error saying directory not found. I did the uninstall from the control panel / pr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 26, 2016

live essentials 2012

unable to reinstall live essentials 2012 after a restore to factory default. told file missing

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Windows Mail

I cannot get Windows Mail to function on my new Dell laptop computer. In the past I had always used Windows Live Email for Windows Essentials 2012. Can someone tell me what I have to do to get the Windows Mail included i …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 25, 2016

Windows Mail

I cannot get Windows Mail to function on my new Dell laptop computer. In the past I had always used Windows Live Email for Windows Essentials 2012. Can someone tell me what I have to do to get the Windows Mail included i …

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Windows Live Essentials for windows 7

I used to have windows live essentials in 2014 but my computer just got fixed this year and it was out dated. I went online to download windows live essentials and it keeps telling me that i have the updated version alre …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 24, 2016

Windows Live Essentials for windows 7

I used to have windows live essentials in 2014 but my computer just got fixed this year and it was out dated. I went online to download windows live essentials and it keeps telling me that i have the updated version alre …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 24, 2016

4K On Movie Maker

I have 4K clips which I would like to edit in windows movie maker, however as soon as I try and import them, the program crashes and forces me to shut it down. Is there any way to work around this, by compressing the vid …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 24, 2016

Windows 10 and downloads

It seems like it's been made deliberately hard to download or use certain things we've always took for granted ...like Movie Maker or Windows Essentials or Live Mail. Since moving to Win10 (bad mistake on my part) I have …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 23, 2016

Windows 10 and downloads

It seems like it's been made deliberately hard to download or use certain things we've always took for granted ...like Movie Maker or Windows Essentials or Live Mail. Since moving to Win10 (bad mistake on my part) I have …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 23, 2016

Aspect Ratio

Movie Maker fails to show 2 by 3 aspect ratio picture.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 23, 2016

Movie maker – adding sound issue

hi i am trying to create a movie of my holiday pictures and wanted to add some sound to them as well. when i go to add sound i get an error message: Music starts after the last item. i have put the bar in the correct pla …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2016

Movie maker – adding sound issue

hi i am trying to create a movie of my holiday pictures and wanted to add some sound to them as well. when i go to add sound i get an error message: Music starts after the last item. i have put the bar in the correct pla …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2016

Movie Maker Stabilization facility.

I am very new to Movie Maker and editing generally, in fact Brand New! I have applied the 'Stabilization' facility to a video I am currently editing, however I am confused. I cannot establish if I can apply stabilization …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2016

Movie Maker Win.7 sound making picture jumpy

My first try on Movie maker, because coundn't rotate in WMP. Think that is fixed now, but see photo below, the subject is telling a story, and the sound graph makes the picture jumpy as he talks. Any way to remedy this?? …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2016

Movie Maker has stopped working

Hi, When I open Movie Maker I get an error message "... Movie Maker has stopped working..." I have Windows 8. I tried to unistall, reboot and install Movie Maker with the same results. I tried in compatibility mode with …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 21, 2016

winows movie maker 2012

Hi when i try to download windows essentials it starts to download then it say i already have it on my labtop but when i got to my control panel and programs its not there. i am using windows 7 can someone please help me …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 21, 2016

Windows Live Movie Maker

Okay, so I'm trying to add a .mp4 file to windows live movie maker that I imported from my Canon t6i Rebel's SD Card, and it's saying it's corrupted or WLMM doesn't recognize it. I try going to the Window Live's website …

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Windows Live Movie Maker

Okay, so I'm trying to add a .mp4 file to windows live movie maker that I imported from my Canon t6i Rebel's SD Card, and it's saying it's corrupted or WLMM doesn't recognize it. I try going to the Window Live's website …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2016

Photo Gallery in windows 7 won’t open

When I try to open Photo Gallery to edit photos I receive an error message telling me that it can't open error message 0x80070057. It was fine a couple of days ago. Is it due to the latest updates? Please does anyone kno …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2016

Photo Gallery in windows 7 won’t open

When I try to open Photo Gallery to edit photos I receive an error message telling me that it can't open error message 0x80070057. It was fine a couple of days ago. Is it due to the latest updates? Please does anyone kno …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2016