If links are allowed, I can provide the video I followed). So I looked up some solutions and I tried troubleshooting the computer problems, webcam and it’s drivers, turning off Windows Defender Firewall (I do not have any anti-virus software other than whatever default protection Windows provides), disabling the microphone on the webcam to allow only the camera, plugging the webcam into different USB ports, scanning for hardware changes, turning off and back on the camera access, resetting the Camera application, doing this whole Registry Editor solution I found on YouTube where you add 0 value to this DWORD thing inside Platform under a bunch of things starting from something called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (sorry I don’t know what any of this is.

Now with that being said, the Camera application on Windows is not detecting the webcam and states “We can’t find your camera” followed by a bit of advice and “error code: 0xA00F4244”. However, Microsoft does not provide any drivers for this webcam beyond Windows 7 so I managed to find third party drivers that seem to do the job as the orange alert triangle has disappeared and the webcam’s device status states “This device is working properly”. I’ve recently found an old camera (LifeCam VX-1000) that I used for a really old PC from when Windows XP was still a thing. Hello, I am incredibly tech illiterate so please forgive my embarrassing attempts at solving this issue.

Lifecam vx 1000 driver windows 10