Can I Change The Default Microsoft Windows Camera To Use An External Camera

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To isolate your concern, what is the device yous're experiencing this consequence with?

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I am using a HP branded dv6 Pavilion Notebook with a USB camera inserted to i of the USB slots. The device has an internal photographic camera which is default and is used in the camera app. There is no apparent way to change photographic camera feed input.

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To accost your concern, follow the steps beneath:
1. Open Control Panel.
2. Click Hardware and Sound.
3. Click Devices and Printers.
4. Right-click the USB photographic camera y'all want to set up as default then click Set equally default camera.

Let usa know how it goes.

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4. Right-click the USB camera yous want to set as default then click Set as default camera.

I'm non seeing the option.

https://youtu.be/ZxumyuiI3vs

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To further assist y'all, provide the answers to the following:

Have y'all tried inserting the USB camera in a different USB port and still failed to find it?
Have y'all tried uninstalling and reinstalling the commuter for the USB camera?
Accept yous tried a unlike device and bank check if the camera will be detected?

In the meantime, you can refer to this link to troubleshoot devices that are not detected.

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To further help you lot, provide the answers to the following:

Have you tried inserting the USB camera in a different USB port and still failed to detect it?

Accept you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver for the USB photographic camera?

Have you tried a different device and cheque if the camera volition be detected?

In the meantime, you tin refer to this link to troubleshoot devices that are not detected.

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#ane: It's not failing to connect; Windows is able to properly find the device... That's how I learned the device'southward name since it has nothing on the physical device to state what it is.

#2: No, only it could be a driver that doesn't exactly make my reckoner know it is a photographic camera. (It does take the camera icon, so it must retrieve it's some sort of optic device). Perhaps you could notice a better driver... I don't know. All I know is I had to install the driver manually.

#3: No, I take just this one PC. If I borrowed someone else's figurer, I'd have to install the driver again (manually). Windows had an update. I will bank check if the update fixes annihilation this weekend.

Question: Did you watch the linked video?

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Since you mentioned that you haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, we suggest that y'all practise it and brand sure that yous have the latest drivers.

Let us know the result.

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The latest driver would non install.... I kept getting a missing file error.

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Okay... Just disabled the HP Truevision device in my figurer... Going to see what affect this has.

Results:

But disabling my internal microphone in sound settings forced the camera app to utilize my external microphone... So I thought I could do the same with the photographic camera source. It's strange though that the camera app doesn't use your PC's gear up default microphone.

Looking at the camera properties (CIF camera):