My new HP computer with Vista has a built in web cam. Can it be used to take pictures or record video?

Just wondering if anyone can help me out. When I go into windows movie maker, the following appears: moviemk.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "ox60cba513" referenced memory at "0x04ded8c8". The memory could not be "written". Ok to terminate. Cancel to debug. Does anyone know what this means? And can it be fixed? Tried to use the uninstall program, but WMM is not listed there....

Can anyone tell me why windows media centre has suddenly stopped working on my computer( Windows Home Vista premium) When I go into WMC to look at my photos I get a message telling me that WMC has stopped working. I never get any solutions even though I click the box to check online for a solution, the programme just closes down every time. -- Glenn

Using Vista Business Pent 4 processor, 3.0 MHz 2G Ram 160G HD 250G ext HD Until today, I have been able to play my music CDs using Windows Media Player in a Vista environment. Last night I failed to shut down properly and think I just turned the computer off without closing Windows. Got the usual "you didn't close Windows properly" message this morning and chose to boot

I putsome pics to a PICTURE ONLY DVD I want to create - no movies, just still .JPEGS - clicked burn and the little "Preparing to Burn DVD" dialog box popped straight up and has stayed at "Preparing...0.0%" for about 20 minutes. DVD is in burner... is this normal? No action at all on the DVD drive light either...?? Thoughts? Rgds

When I open my copy of iTunes, this message always pops up: "iTunes has not been installed properly. If you want to burn CDs or DVDs, you'll have to reinstall iTunes." Is this a common problem with Vista users? Any suggestions as to alleviate it? Thanks.

Hi, My windows media player stops working when I connect a USB thumb drive or my zune. I am running windows vista. anyone else there have any suggestions on this? this is soooo frustrating and i dont want to reimage my pc grrrrrrr!!!

when i go to: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/help/33ecda79-b6aa-42af-8034-87be9322ac181033.mspx and click "watch the demo", it opens media player classic which has the msg " cannot render the file". If i try to open the file with wmp, i get the error msg: "the file you are attempting to play has an extension (.wmv) that does not match the file format." when i click yes,...

Whenever I try and save a movie as AVI movie maker screen goes white and program recycles back to where I was when I tried to publish a file type of DV-AVI. I can publish to other types WMA etc. Thanks in advance

New computer - past experience of Pinnacle editing - find Movie maker totally useless - get so far along a project then the whole timeline freezes-the preview sceen goes black and I can no longer continue with editing project. The suggestion that you need to publish and reload to continue is nonsense. Any ideas?

How can I make Windows Photo Gallery always open pictures in the same window? By default whenver I open a new picture it opens a new instance. I want it to use the existing window if one was open. Thanks in advance.

I have tried for Months to figure out this issue and cannot find A solution to this ongoing issue. When I import video from my DV camera, (WMV format)(Tried AVI-doesnt work) I go to windows movie maker and when I play it back, it plays in fast forward and sound is distorted as a result. Basically it is playing at a higher speed, with faster sound. I have to been to many forums &...

I have Adobe CS3 installed and would like Photoshop to be my default program for opening and editing digital images. However, no matter what I do, I cannot add Photoshop as my default program. How can I fix this?

My Windows Media Player 11 Vista 32bit hangs or freezes when trying to view online video or audio streams. For example, I like to listen to 740AM radio steaming through there website. It crashes. I am unable to view .wmv files from websites. When User Account Control is disabled, everything runs fine. Here is my info: Windows Media Player Version 11.0.6000.6344

I have a static slide show gadget that I can't get to show any other pictures than the default sample picture - just 1. I have set it to access my pictures folder and all subfolders, but they never show up. I click play, nothing happens. I click next...nothing happens. I tried to restore the default gadgets through the properties dialogue, but that option is greyed out. I'm stuck...

Hello there, I'm new to this forum. Here is the problem, I've installed K-lite codec pack on my laptop which the OS is windows vista home premium 32bit. Everything's work fine in the begining until when i try to play a new file which i normaly can play it, a error message suddenly appeared 'Media Player Classic Could not render some of the pins in the graph, you may not have the needed codec or...

I am unable to view photos in full screen no matter what I use. In any slideshow setting except pan & zoom there is a black border around the photo. Help

I'm running vista business os. I'm able to burn data disks fine, but when i use itunes to burn audio disks, it starts to initialize the burn, but then stops and gives me the following message: "The attempt to burn a disc failed. An unknown error occurred (2131)." Since I'm running vista business, i had to download a driver to play dvd movies, and i'm wondering if it's a similar situation?...

I have two file extensions that I moved from my old computer to new computer running Vista. They won't open now. Can someone tell me the best way to handle this problem? I have many pictures that I moved with the file extensions that Windows Gallery will open, no problem there. The first problem file extension is .mix file, I guess this is an old Microsoft Picture It extension. The other is...

Just purchased a new PC with Vista. Previous XP system allowed download of video from Canon MV30i Digital Video, Vista does not support IEEE1394 according to Canon. Now left with hours of video tape to create DVD. Reading the discussion groups IEEE1394 was obviously an important facility which MS has taken away and left quite a few people stranded. Any ideas? -- Bill Mac