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hexagramer · 2008-12-13 00:53:18

HI i bought a laptop brand new last week and am having some trouble with the inbuilt camera on it. its a sony vaio and when i log onto msn messenger and try fire up the webcam it sais 'CANNOT ACCESS CAMERA BECAUSE IT IS BEING USED BY A THIRD PARTY' iv restarted the comp and only fired up msn messenger and with the same…

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13-12-2008 1:53am

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hexagramer

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HI

i bought a laptop brand new last week and am having some trouble with the inbuilt camera on it.

its a sony vaio and when i log onto msn messenger and try fire up the webcam it sais 'CANNOT ACCESS CAMERA BECAUSE IT IS BEING USED BY A THIRD PARTY'

iv restarted the comp and only fired up msn messenger and with the same problem. theres also no feature in the startup menu to use the camera as stand alone. its on windows vista and iv no experiance at all with it.

anybody know what todo??

nick

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#2 14-12-2008 9:36pm
jimmycrackcorm

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Use the task manager to list what applications are running.

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