Anyone half-decent with computers?

[blood_winged]

For some reason, at the moment, when I try to run my webcam on MSN or AIM (not tried any other messenger but I can only assume the same for them), once the link has closed - AIM wouldn't even show my camera - the program locks up, and can only be exited using task manager. However, the process hangs and doesn't respond to the 'end process' option. It's also causing a problem because then, my laptop will hang when trying to shut down (I imagine unable to because of the hanging process).

It's not a big deal, I can live without using my webcam, it's just a bit perplexing. My last updates were for Windows Defender, one on the 21st and one on the 24th, and I'm pretty sure my cam worked before yesterday.

Any clues, anyone?

Comments

[soulright.livejournal.com]

Could be a number of things. Was it the first time you used it? Is your computer just rejecting the cam?

Could be a driver issue, depending on how much ram you got especially if you got low ram and running something like windows 7. Slowing down a program to nonresponsive is understandable but not your whole computer that it lags to shut down. Clearly something got overworked.

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

It's not rejecting it, no. It's still trying to run it but it's crashing my messengers.

And, it doesn't lag my whole computer, just that one program, but it won't close no matter what I do so the only way to get it working is to reboot the comp, which brings me to the process hanging problem, which stops the computer from shutting down.

[soulright.livejournal.com]

Eff me for being a person who has to see everything to know what anything is. xD I honestly can't imagine what it's doing then. Only thing I can think of is your RAM is not supporting the webcam. If it was just msn I'd blame it on that and say reinstall it or make sure it's up to date. It recently got an upgrade.

It doesn't just stop out of nowhere, something got outdated. Drivers, msn. Firewalls are capable of messing up webcams. I'll look into windows defender and see if their recent updates have done something to you.

[blood-winged.livejournal.com]

I would rather have a non-working webcam than upgrade to the new msn xD

Thanks hon, let me know.

[soulright.livejournal.com]

Well I can't help you there then. xD I don't see Windows Defender doing anything so we're scratching that out. Have someone look at it, I'm bad at helping when I can't see it for myself.

Goodluck~ ♥