webcams

I just bought 2 Microsoft Life Cams, VX-5000. I installed 1 and sent one to
my daughter. After both were installed I open my cam and my image appeared
on my screen. I then make a video call and was able to see who I called, but
they couldn't see me. I've tried on both my desktop and my laptop, with the
same results. I even installed with my virus and firewall disabled but got
the same result. I'm running Vista, 32 on both. Anyone have a suggestion.

Greetings,

Although there's plenty of possible reasons this is happening, open up the main Messenger
window, press the Alt key on the keyboard to bring up the menu bar, then click the Tools
menu, then Options, and finally under the Webcam section of the bottom of the Personal
category (opened by default), make sure 'Allow others to see that I have a webcam' is
selected. If it isn't, select it, click OK, then shut down Messenger entirely and then start
it back up again. Then attempt your video call again.

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"Popey37" <> wrote in message
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> I just bought 2 Microsoft Life Cams, VX-5000. I installed 1 and sent one to
> my daughter. After both were installed I open my cam and my image appeared
> on my screen. I then make a video call and was able to see who I called, but
> they couldn't see me. I've tried on both my desktop and my laptop, with the
> same results. I even installed with my virus and firewall disabled but got
> the same result. I'm running Vista, 32 on both. Anyone have a suggestion.