Windows Live Messenger (superseded by Skype).

Windows Live Photo Gallery and Movie Maker.

The complete full offline installer of Windows Live Essentials 2012 includes the following applications: In some cases, you may need to reinstall Windows Live Mail to recover or retrieve the thousands of emails that were downloaded to Windows Live Mail, and the program can also act as important intermediary for importing and exporting emails into Microsoft Outlook and other email clients.Įven though Microsoft has disabled the official download link for Windows Live Essentials 2012 (was originally available at ), the latest version of Windows Live Essentials ever released, it’s still possible to download Windows Live Essentials 2012 through unofficial link. Even though most of the software was no longer actively developed since 2012, and was since discontinued by Microsoft on January 11 2017, some apps may still be useful and are good quality free alternative to paid commercial apps.įor example, Windows Movie Maker is still a good basic video editing software, likewise for Windows Live Photo Gallery. Windows Live Essentials software bundle proves to be very popular with Windows users.

Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.Windows Live Essentials comprises a bundle of Microsoft software applications for Windows operating system to complement the OS which lacks many basic features by default, especially before Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 era, probably due to antitrust concern. There isn’t support for FLV files, which would be welcome, especially if you have many videos downloaded from YouTube in FLV format. You can do this with several different video file types such as MOV, MV4, WMV, AVI, and MPG. Success! When it’s finished, you have the option to play the music right away or open the folder location and move the file where you need it.

The amount of time will vary depending on the size and length of the video. You’ll see the progress while the conversion takes place. But you can also save it as a WMA file, but MP4 is a more standard format that will play on most Android, iPhone, and other mobile devices. Give your audio file a name, and it will save as MP4/AAC by default.

Once the video loads into Movie Maker (it can take several minutes for large files), click File > Save Movie and scroll all the way down, and click Audio Only. Open Movie Maker and click Add Video and Photos and browse to the location of the video file you want to get the audio from. The two are part of the Windows Live Essentials 2012 suite of free software utilities from Microsoft. Both programs need to be installed together because they share several of the same features. If you don’t already have it, download and install Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. Getting Movie Maker (No Longer Supported) # Update: The Windows Live Essentials suite of apps is no longer available or supported by Microsoft.

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