Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Lenovo W530 - webcam doesn't work

The webcam keeps disappearing from the OS and from Skype.  It comes up with a message saying that the camera is in use by another application.

I've read a number of posts in the various Lenovo forums, and they indicate that lots of others are having similar issues.  Typically I'm able to fix this by going into Fn-F6 and tweaking something in there... but that is no longer working for me (the dialog no longer comes up).

So:

- to manually bring up that dialog, instead us Start > Lenovo - Web Conferencing or Start > Communications.

(still testing these to see if they help)

- Set the privacy to Normal

- Disable Activate Camera Plus (under Detailed settings)

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