Ok, hi all. I'm having problems with webcam in msn, and yes, I've seen the same problem all over this forum. anyway, I've tracked the problem I think, but there's still no fix.

Anyway, firstly, the problem. You send a request to send your webcam, or someone else wants to see yours, after about 20 seconds (post accepting the request), it disconnects

The cause: well, as far as I can tell, for some reason, MSN tells the WIA (Image Acquisition) service to shut down, and it only seems to happen on vista & 7, the problem never occurs on XP (for me anyway). So, anyone know a fix?

Feel free to correct me.

I've done a quick search on Google and most with the same issue say that reinstalling the webcam worked for them or the problem for them have been that the Windows Image Acquistion (WIA) has been set to manual and should have been set to automatic.

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Originally posted by RawrrrFace18
Feel free to correct me.

I've done a quick search on Google and most with the same issue say that reinstalling the webcam worked for them or the problem for them have been that the Windows Image Acquistion (WIA) has been set to manual and should have been set to automatic.

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My issue may be totally unrelated as I do not see you mention anything about your network.  But in my case, anytime a webcam session was activated, my entire network would die.  Turns out it was the router and after I replaced it, it worked fine.

Again, most likely unrelated, but still.

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Originally posted by whiplash
My issue may be totally unrelated as I do not see you mention anything about your network.  But in my case, anytime a webcam session was activated, my entire network would die.  Turns out it was the router and after I replaced it, it worked fine.

Again, most likely unrelated, but still.

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Again, in my case, it had to do with UPnP.