Webcam malfunctions with user account on windows 7

[Balamani]

Hi. Well I have a desktop machine with a D-link webcamera plugged to it. I use windows 7 as my operating system. The problem is with my webcam. It do not detect when I work using a normal user account on windows 7. Whereas when I use an admin account it works properly. What could be the issue. Please help me out. It would a great help from you.

[Humberto]

Well the problem that is you cannot use webcam on a normal user account and can use it under administrator account seems that the drivers are been installed under administrators account only. This means that the drivers for the D-link webcam has been installed by using the same account and is not installed under a normal user account. This would be the reason that you are not able to work with webcam using normal user account.

[Dr. V]

The reason could be that the drivers for the the web camera that you have installed in a normal user account might have gone corrupt. You need to reinstall the drivers in order to make the webcam to function properly. Remove the drivers that has been previously installed in the system using normal user account and then install them gain using the utility disc of the webcam. This should solve the problem.

[Devasis]

You can configure the webcam under user account by following the steps:

1) Goto start menu and open control panel.
2) System option by double clicking on it.
3) Click on the hardware tab.
4) Select the device manager option and click on continue if user account popup appears.
5) Click on the device tab and expand it.
6) Right click on the camera device and update its driver.
7) It will ask for installation select search automatically to install software.

This would be help you out in making the camera work.