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Photo Gallery

I have been using photo gallery for about 6 months . I have a lenovo computer with windows 7. After i have imported my photos from my Kodak Easy share i am prompted to organize,edit and share my photos with Photo Gallery …

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

Reporting Scam Windows Essentials Installation Site

Hello! I know that Microsoft MVPs and Employees frequent this site, so I thought that perhaps this might be a good place to pose the question/report an issue. In fact, the issue is not with the software but rather a some …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 19, 2016

Reporting Scam Windows Essentials Installation Site

Hello! I know that Microsoft MVPs and Employees frequent this site, so I thought that perhaps this might be a good place to pose the question/report an issue. In fact, the issue is not with the software but rather a some …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 19, 2016

Movie Maker

I have been able to make a video, but the microphone appears to be in the mute mode. cant record sound

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 18, 2016

Movie Maker

I have been able to make a video, but the microphone appears to be in the mute mode. cant record sound

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 18, 2016

add an image overlay in movie maker

I am trying to add a small logo image on top of a video i have created in movie maker, but do not seem to be able to do this. Don't just want to add images within the movie, but literally add small image in a corner or a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 18, 2016

Windows Live Movie Maker

There was a notification that popped up while i was using WLMM and it said something about like 'do u want ur photos to auto look HD or be edited all the time' and i agreed to it but now every video i want to edit has th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 18, 2016

Windows Movie Maker

Window Movie Maker will not load my video files into the editing program, only sound. Now that Windows 10 Anniversary has updated. What do I need to do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 17, 2016

Caption Cut Off in Movie Maker

For several of the captions I inserted into my video on movie maker, the tops of the text get cut off. I use the same font, same font size, and same placement for each of my captions, yet only a portion are getting cut o …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 16, 2016

Windows 10 Movie Maker

Where can I download Windows 10 movie maker from?? I have searched everywhere and all links to downloads just lead elsewhere. I cannot find ONE easy download link anywhere-and the Microsoft site is just useless and doesn …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 16, 2016

Windows 10 Movie Maker

Where can I download Windows 10 movie maker from?? I have searched everywhere and all links to downloads just lead elsewhere. I cannot find ONE easy download link anywhere-and the Microsoft site is just useless and doesn …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 16, 2016

Windows Photo Gallery kicks off my WD MyBook

Each time that I browse the pictures in my WD MyBook with Photo Gallery the drive gets booted off my computer and becomes an unrecognizable USB source. Has this been happening to anyone else since one of the latest updat …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 16, 2016

I used to have 2 users on my PC, one with Movie Maker, user soon got deleted, now that I try to redownload MM, it says that I already have it after the completion of installing WE, but it’s nowhere.

I really need help, I have been looking through the Q&As, but they just seem to not help, it says that I already have it once I tried to redownload Movie Maker, but somehow it isn't in my files, desktop, anything! Trying …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 15, 2016

Windows Essentials 2012, especially Windows Live Email

I had to reset Windows 10 on this computer, as well as on another computer and cannot get Windows Live Essentials including Windows Live Email reinstalled on this computer. Can anyone help me resolve this problem? I want …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 14, 2016

Movie Maker Error

So I was the video guy for a concert and was using Windows Movie Maker for editing. Then I opened my wlmp file and the playlist was empty, but the preview screen indicated that there was an 1:1:05 of video, but when I tr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 14, 2016

Windows Movie Maker

I deleted windows movie maker and the accompianying programs in windows essentials and am trying to re-download them but every time try to (using this site https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14220/windows-movie-mak …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 14, 2016

Microsoft Photo Gallry

When I tried to open the Photo Gallery app I received a pot up window (which I can not get rid of) that says "The program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer. Try to reinstalling to program to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 13, 2016

Microsoft Photo Gallry

When I tried to open the Photo Gallery app I received a pot up window (which I can not get rid of) that says "The program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer. Try to reinstalling to program to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 13, 2016

Microsoft Photo Gallery

I have tried several times to download Photo Gallery to no avail. Microsoft also tried to help to no avail. It keeps on giving me same error to two different work stations located different places. Could't set up the ins …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 13, 2016

Microsoft Photo Gallery

I have tried several times to download Photo Gallery to no avail. Microsoft also tried to help to no avail. It keeps on giving me same error to two different work stations located different places. Could't set up the ins …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 13, 2016

Microsoft Photo Gallery

I have tried several times to download Photo Gallery to no avail. Microsoft also tried to help to no avail. It keeps on giving me same error to two different work stations located different places. Could't set up the ins …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 13, 2016