What is Windows Essentials?

It was formerly known as Windows Live Essentials, Windows program suite consisting of freeware applications from Microsoft. It is essentially a bundle of programs consisting of:

The latest one available is Windows Essentials 2012 which you can download and install on your computer.
The 2011 version is available here:
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-Live-Essentials-2011/3000-2150_4-10805747.html

The 2012 version details are here including download link:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-remove-red-eye-from-image-in.html
 

How to remove red eye from an image in Windows 8.1?

The removal of red eye is quite easy but you need to download and install Windows Photo Gallery from Microsoft site here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/photo-gallery

Let us first install Photo Gallery.

Download this file



The system requirements for Windows Essentials 2012 which has Photo Gallery and other programs.


Select how you want to install.



Select items you want to install.



Sign the license agreement.



In Photo Gallery import the picture. This was imported from a Nokia Icon camera and there is a menu item to fix the red eye. Just follow the procedure(shown inside rectangle in the image below).

 

 That's as simple as that. The red color just vanishes.