

This how-to tutorial shows you how to access the Photos app in Windows 10 and load video files into it for editing. Why Microsoft choose to do this is open to conjecture and speculation, but whatever the reason, it is certainly nice to have a useful free video editor back in Windows 10. Only the company hid the feature inside another free app called Photos. However, when the Fall Creators Update started rolling out in October 2017, Microsoft added a new video editing application.

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In fact, until the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10, there was no free movie editing application installed as an integral part of the Windows operating system. At some point during its many patches and updates, and with the release of Windows 8 and now Windows 10, Microsoft decided to mothball one of its more useful free apps–Windows Movie Maker.
