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Installing my Logitech USB webcame a couple of years ago was a nightmare. My
PC is operated in a secure mode by which I work in a restricted account and
use the administrator account just for those special tasks.
Unfortunately the Logitech USB Webcam software appears to have been designed
by Windows 95 people in which it assumes that ALL users are security
unconscious and do all their computing in an administrator account.
Back then, the only way I could get the darn camera to work in a restricted
account (where it is actually used!) was to tamper with some permissions of
some .COM file in the windows directory and change some registry stuff. All
of that I had to do according to the warped vision of the Logitech support
department.
Since then my PC was never the same again, my user account started suffering
from amnesia, no longer remembering certain application settings.
To make things short, the camera was working and there was no way to revert
the "damage". Today I saw a Logitech USB Webcam update tagged for me on the
Windows Update site so I chose to install it.
It downloaded the update and when it was halfway through my XP SP2 PC
rebotted by itself, apparently this windows update installation pinched a
nerve really hard.
After than the camera ceased to work, it always said "camera being used by
another application". After several reboots it did not give that error again
but it only shows a flickering black image. I know the camera is OK but the
installation screwed something up and now the camera is blind.
I had no choice but to remove the Logitech USB WebCam software (driver
included) and now I am left with a piece of hardware sitting on my monitor
with no use. Idon't expect their installation has improved their initial
flaw and I certainly would not do the win update for this hardware again.
Emilio
PC is operated in a secure mode by which I work in a restricted account and
use the administrator account just for those special tasks.
Unfortunately the Logitech USB Webcam software appears to have been designed
by Windows 95 people in which it assumes that ALL users are security
unconscious and do all their computing in an administrator account.
Back then, the only way I could get the darn camera to work in a restricted
account (where it is actually used!) was to tamper with some permissions of
some .COM file in the windows directory and change some registry stuff. All
of that I had to do according to the warped vision of the Logitech support
department.
Since then my PC was never the same again, my user account started suffering
from amnesia, no longer remembering certain application settings.
To make things short, the camera was working and there was no way to revert
the "damage". Today I saw a Logitech USB Webcam update tagged for me on the
Windows Update site so I chose to install it.
It downloaded the update and when it was halfway through my XP SP2 PC
rebotted by itself, apparently this windows update installation pinched a
nerve really hard.
After than the camera ceased to work, it always said "camera being used by
another application". After several reboots it did not give that error again
but it only shows a flickering black image. I know the camera is OK but the
installation screwed something up and now the camera is blind.
I had no choice but to remove the Logitech USB WebCam software (driver
included) and now I am left with a piece of hardware sitting on my monitor
with no use. Idon't expect their installation has improved their initial
flaw and I certainly would not do the win update for this hardware again.
Emilio