PC Cameras and SP2

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Sharon said:
Bill, I realized your intention but thought that you may be following the
wrong tack on trying to dig up the mention of the IP number (that number is
also hard coded into Internet Connection Sharing.) I wasn't trying to cloud
the issue for you. I was trying to dissect it further so that you could
take the pieces and put them back together in a way that would work for
you.

Richard (COB) uses the camera successfully. I don't know if it's the same
camera or completely different but he's worked around the Intel software
issue by not using it.

I don't know about you but it sounds like there's a good chance that the
camera you have is not a lost cause. Instead it sounds like you need to
find alternatives to its software to be able to use it. **************************************************************************>
Sorry if you feel I derailed your thread a bit.
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Not at all, Sharon. I hope I didn't give the impression that I thought so.
That surely wasn't my intention.
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Of course not. Reading these pages one never finds you other than
friendly and well-intentioned and tolerant (others please note).
You're one of the regulars in these newsgroups and was just
trying to lend a helping hand.

Best regards,
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Of course, Sharon. But with the software I have, XP>>SP2 and what Intel
sold me, purpoortedly to make their camera work with SP2, Richard has
told us that it can't be done. And what he did get from Intel that I
now can't he did make his work. So it all adds up to one thing:
I should quit the Don Quixote act and hope I have better success
with my new Creative camera, and their software.
 
OK. The last time I tried it was under SP1. As I have said - I do not use
the software as my camera works fine with every Windows XP program/utility
that utilizes a web cam. All I needed were the drivers.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I still have my Intel Create and Share Camera, which is older than Bills,
and that was barely supported with ME (was made for 95/98), and had
absolutely no support for 2000, as Intel stated that iy will not write
drivers past ME.

Though I don't have the software installed, since it won't work, nor are
there any Intel drivers for it, XP uses the device as an (listed in Device
man.) 'Intel USB Video Camera III'. I can take self pictures with it, make
little videos with through WMM2, and I can do web cam chats through Yahoo,
MSN, and Netmeeting. Since that is all available to me still, I am actually
saving disk space and resources not having to use Intel's software.
 
Thank you, Richard. I bought that CD (free except for $5.95
S&H) months ago. See other peoples' corroboration that it
doesn't work for SP2.
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SP2 seems to have broken many webcam programs. Stay away from
SP2.
 
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