We strongly suggest keeping and storing safely the Windows Essentials 2012 full installer. The download link, and a lot more, will be in the first issue you receive. Join Office Watch and Office for Mere Mortals today. The Exclusive Subscriber Downloads page is available in every issue. We’ve made a copy of the download available to our free newsletter subscribers. Since you can’t get the download from Microsoft (unless it’s hiding somewhere on Redmond’s many servers) you’re forced to look elsewhere. It’s safe practice to only download programs from original, known and trusted sources … but this is an exception. This single file has all you need to install Windows Movie Maker and other apps.įor some years the full install was on – a Microsoft owned domain. Microsoft also released Windows Essentials 2012 as a single ‘all inclusive’ download – wlsetup-all.exe 134MB. For a while you could still downloaded the small installer (wlsetup-web.exe 1.2MB) from but that app can’t grab the larger install files. Officially, Microsoft has stopped supplying Windows Essentials 2012 (the last release). Windows Movie Maker 2012 works fine on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 7.

Use WMM to make a short video for insertion into a PowerPoint presentation. I often use Windows Movie Maker to quickly open a video, cut some unwanted elements and perhaps add a simple text card to start or end. Various effects, animations and transitions are available. You can put together video clips, add captions, audio, titles and end credits.

Microsoft now has ClipChampwith more ‘bells and whistles’ for making and editing videos.Īs a simple video editor, Windows Movie Maker (WMM) is great. Most of them are either defunct (Messenger) or superceded (Editor), only Movie Maker still has a place. Movie Maker was part of Windows Essentials, a package of free programs from Microsoft. We’ve explained how to get the much-loved Office Picture Manager even though it’s been officially removed from Office. Officially it’s no longer available but it’s still available if you know the magic spell. Windows Movie Maker is a simple and free video editor from Microsoft that still works in modern Windows.

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