

Movie Maker is a video editing suite that only helps you create and edit professional videos but upload them to sharing platforms like YouTube and Facebook. It provides a wide range of useful tools, including tagging, searching, and import/export.


Photo Gallery is an image organizer as well as a photo editor and image sharing platform. The programs included with Windows Essentials 2012 are Photo Gallery Movie Maker Windows Live Mail Windows Live Messenger Windows Live Writer SkyDrive for Windows, which became OneDrive and Family Safety, which is only installed on Windows 7 because of built-in family safe functionality on Windows 8 and later versions of the operating system. Just note that some functionality, such as Family Safety, does not run on XP. Windows Essentials 2012 was released specifically for the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems, but it also supports Windows XP to a certain degree. Users can choose whether or not to download and install these apps, and when you install Windows Essentials 2012, you even have the option of not installing one or more of the programs. Essentials includes a number of useful tools developed and branded by Microsoft, but they’re not integrated. Windows Essentials is one result of the fallout from that case. Once upon a time, Microsoft found itself in some hot water over the integration of some branded, yet ancillary software into their operating system. Windows Essentials 2012 is a suite of tools from Microsoft that let you do more with Windows for free.
