Re: Vista Device Issues
- From: "RalfG" <itsnotme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:31:59 -0400
"Tom Hall" <aria1946@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:qhvn255nsont5n6uetiua20nbbudaslrg8@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:47:25 -0400, "RalfG" <itsnotme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's pretty much standard practice that USB printers, scanners and webcams
require their drivers to be pre-installed before connecting the device to
the computer. That includes the Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000, in both XP and
Vista. The only reliable exceptions are those devices for which MS provides
legacy drivers. For everything else either the device manufacturer supplies
the drivers for it or else the device isn't supported in a particular OS.
Having used XP Pro for a long time, I was used to being able to access the
webcam from My Computer. Such appears not to be the case in Vista.
However, when I installed Windows Live Messenger and ran the audio and
video setup, WLM found my webcam instantly. I even have access to pan and
zoom features which in XP I only had when I used Logitech's bloated cam
software.
Tom
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I have the same camera... well perhaps not exactly the same model revision but a QC Pro 5000 in any case. Installed in both XP and Vista 32bit. The camera was originally detected and installed in Vista sure enough but as a different model (QC Fusion). Whether any part of that driver worked with this camera I didn't bother to find out since I intended to install Logitech's Vista drivers anyway. I'd installed Vista on speculation, expecting to spend most of my time in XP MCE, but as it happens I almost never use XP since putting Vista on the computer. Since you mentioned it though I do remember the QC Pro 5000 showing up in Explorer in XP just as you described. Never had a use for that.
Looking in the list of Logitech drivers present in my Vista the only two that show up for the QC Pro 5000 are the 11.0.x and 11.5.x Logitech drivers from mid-late 2007. Logitech has a 64bit driver package available for download. It does at least look as if the QuickCam utility can be uninstalled on its own without also removing the webcam drivers.
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