Death of the webcam... - Printable Version

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Death of the webcam... by mwe99 on 06-01-2005 at 09:50 PM

Whenever someone closes a webcam on MSN to me, i get this

and have to Ctrl Alt Del to close off MSN then restart it. Any ideas what could be causing it?

Windows XP pack 2
MSN Messenger 813
Stuff Plug (latest)
Plus (latest)

RE: Death of the webcam... by M73A on 06-01-2005 at 09:58 PM

i get this too but it doesnt come up with that it just crashes...

i doesn't always happen though..

any info on why this happens?

thanks

RE: Death of the webcam... by Patchou on 06-01-2005 at 10:16 PM

Did you try without running StuffPlus and without running Messenger Plus! completely?

RE: Death of the webcam... by mwe99 on 06-01-2005 at 10:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
Did you try without running StuffPlus and without running Messenger Plus! completely?

I did yeh, it still seems to mess up though, it doesn't do it regularly but somedays its just every time and other times it can go with weeks without doing it. It's not always the same contact either.

RE: Death of the webcam... by prashker on 06-01-2005 at 10:34 PM

try reinstalling MSN MEssenger
It might help I got that error and reinstalled and it fixed it

quote:
Originally posted by Patchou
StuffPlus

RE: Death of the webcam... by mwe99 on 06-01-2005 at 10:44 PM

lol tried reinstalling and all the regular ideas, nothing seems to work though,

RE: Death of the webcam... by phy on 06-02-2005 at 12:12 AM

I don't know if you remember but I made a couple of different threads about my webcam and file transfers making my MSN crash. The webcam issue was a bug in MSN itself - Microsoft had it up on their website for a bit. In terms of fixing the problem, I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling MSN only to find that it did absolutely nothing. About a week or so after having frequent crashes, everything went back to normal and I hadn't installed anything extra either *-)

RE: Death of the webcam... by mwe99 on 06-02-2005 at 12:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by phy
The webcam issue was a bug in MSN itself

The thought did occur to me too, its nothing major as i dont use cams its just annoying when i do.

Thanks anyways

RE: Death of the webcam... by saralk on 06-02-2005 at 01:23 PM

try enlarging the window. I had a slightly related bug a few days ago, I was having a webcam convo with someone, and then I made the window as small as possible, but when she stopped viewing webcam, the conversation went even smaller, and because it was so small it made MSN crash. I couldn't open any conversations because the new size was defaulted to be so small.

I said that because the conversation window looks quite small. So if you resize the convo when they start webcam, don't.