Hi Rick,

I did point out to Philips that I expected a company of their magnitude to
be able to provide a driver for Vista but all they could come up with so far
has been an upgraded XP driver to be used as a "work around" to install my
webcam on the Vista OS.

Thanks for your interest in my case anyway.


"Rick Rogers" wrote:
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> Hi Paul,
>
> Philip's lists no Vista drivers for that model. What are they supplying you
> with? An XP one? That may or may not work, what they need to do is provide
> you with one for Vista. There is no "setting" preventing installation beyond
> the need for an appropriate driver file.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "paul" <paul@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E892EF29-0928-4ACB-BD17-1DAB2F8C5029@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I am trying to install the driver for my Philips Webcam TouCam II PCVC 840K
> > on Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium. The webcam works on Windows XP
> > and
> > it is connected to my PC through a USB port.
> >
> > I downloaded the driver advised by Philips but, during installation, Vista
> > says that Windows cannot find the driver software for my device. Philips
> > say
> > that a setting in my Windows may be preventing the installation.
> >
> > Do I have to discard a webcam which I bought approx. 2 years ago for about
> > 70 Pounds Sterling?
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can provide.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Dave" wrote:
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> >> I had to buy a new webcam that was Vista compatible, as my old one was
> >> not.
> >> Is yours compatible?
> >>
> >> If you tell us which webcam, and which software you are trying to
> >> install,
> >> maybe someone here can help.
> >>
> >> Also, did you install the software before plugging in the webcam, as
> >> instructed?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "cheryl chong" <cheryl [email]chong@discussions.microsoft.com[/email]> wrote in message
> >> news:3D635AEC-9704-4757-8963-85EC233325FE@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi there,
> >> >
> >> > I tried to install a webcam but it was unsuccessful and Vista told me
> >> > that
> >> > there was not enough storage to operate the installation. I have
> >> > currently
> >> > 254 Gb of free HDD space. I tried to search for the driver but Vista
> >> > could
> >> > not locate it, i even tried using every USB port. I managed to install
> >> > the
> >> > software required, but when i open the programme, it says that I do not
> >> > have
> >> > any video capture hardware. Vista has been giving more problems than
> >> > this
> >> > alone.
> >>
> >>[/color][/color]
>
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