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Trick to Use Logitech QuickCam Messenger in Windows Vista

Written by nirvick on

From: nirvick.blogspot.com

Officially, older batch and most of the Logitech QuickCam Messenger is not supported and not compatible with Windows Vista, although you may misleading believe otherwise as QuickCam 10.5 software supports Vista is provided for free download. However, in most of the case, except Logitech QuickCam Messenger with P/N no. of 861225 and USB/PID of 08DA will fail in installation during the webcam setup, where Vista unable to detect the webcam even though you have inserted the webcam.On the other hand, using Windows Vista Add Hardware Wizard will not detect any driver for the webcam, even though you have extracted the driver files from the executables, no matter the Wizard search automatically online and locally or been asked to browse and locate the software drivers on the unpacked location.

In addition, Problem Reports and Solutions applet may appear after the failed driver installation for Logitech QuickCam Messenger with the following message:

Windows Vista does not support Logitech QuickCam Messenger

This problem was caused by a compatibility issue between Windows Vista and Logitech QuickCam Messenger.

Logitech QuickCam Messenger was created by Logitech, Inc..

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To search for similar devices that are compatible with this version of Windows, visit the Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility List website online.

However, it’s not totally out of hope for owner of Logitech QuickCam Messenger who has upgraded to Windows Vista. The following hack will use Windows XP driver (a common trick to use non Vista compliant device) to install the webcam in Vista:

1. Download QuickCam 8.4.8 with driver for WinXP.
2. Install WinRAR if not already installed yet.
3. Open the setup installer qc848enu.exe and unpack its contents to a folder. Alternatively, right click on qc848enu.exe and select “Extract to qc848enu\” option.
4. Insert or plug in the Logitech QuickCam Messenger to a USB port if not already done so.
5. An “Driver Software Installation” icon in systray (notification area) should appear, which will pop up detailed message if click. It should fail, and “Add Hardware Wizard” dialog window will appear. Choose to install the driver manually by instructing the Wizard to locate and look for the web cam driver inside the Drivers folder under the unpacked folder of the qc848enu.exe setup program. You can use browser button to select the folder.
6. Windows Vista should grab the XP driver and install it properly.
7. Download the latest version (10.5.1) of Vista compliant QuickCam software from Logitech to install the software on Vista.
8. Run the setup (qc1051enu) normally. You may need to skip the detection of webcam near the end of installation process.

Voila, you can now use the Logitech webcam to capture images or use it in conjunction with video chat in IM programs such as Windows Live (MSN) Messenger, AIM Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype or run Logitech VideoCall.

This hack may work on other Logitech QuickCams that doesn’t yet or will never support Windows Vista too, such as Logitech QuickCam Zoom Silver, QuickCam Notebooks Deluxe, QuickCam Express, QuickCam Chat, Quickcam Orbit/Sphere, Quickcam Pro 4000, QuickCam Orbit MP, QuickCam Chat and etc. However it’s not tested. If you willing to try out and feedback is appreciated.

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netsecur said...

yes but how do you create an account now. ive done a google search, searched logitech page for the create an account and found nothing

hafeeziqbal said...

Hi Nirvick, The hack works for me fine !!! thnx for the advice....

Bobtext said...

I tried this on Vista 64bit and it does not seem to work for me

axi said...

Didn't work for my Quickcam Express (Vista x64)

sidehack said...

This workaround works fine for my Quickcam Messenger ---- Vista Home Premium (32-Bit).................................... Thanks nirvick.

sidehack said...

Thanks for the workaround nirvick. My Webcam Messenger now works with Vista Home Premium(32-Bit)

Adamok said...

Thanks for this great hack. I was about to go and buy a new webcam before I read your post. Saved me quite a bit.

eses said...

welcume

hpelite said...

doesnt work with hp elite q6600 3 gig rsm 720 hdd . nivida 8600gts

hpelite said...

any tips? i have vista 32 bit everythingelse on my cpu 64 bit or higher windows ratting 5.3 it still tells me downlaod logitech software drivers cant be found

tribble said...

This worked for me. First I had to find qc848enu.exe by doing a web search. It took a little while to download but once I did, I told the install wizard to look into that driver folder specifically in qc848\ and then VISTA found and installed the driver for the camera. However, for VISTA you have to then install the 10.5.1 quickcam software as instructed. For this to work properly in VISTA (if you get error 2738)... >This is actually a problem in the Vista system. > Please try the following steps to remedy this: > > a) Open the command prompt as administrator (search online to find out how to do this as an ADMINISTRATOR, if you don't know how). > b) In the command line type regsvr32 vbscript.dll > That's it....HOWEVER, > IMPORTANT! :If you don't run as admin, it won't work > and you'll get another error message.

dsadsa said...

i test quicktime express is working in Win vista 32 thanks a lot!

dsadsa said...

i test Quick time is working pretty well in Vista 32 thanks a lot!

fiin said...

can you give proper step?

fiin said...

which one software i must download for using quickcam 8.4?

holland said...

shit...doens;t work here ( in Holland...maybe that's the reason??) Please help me

yep2 said...

Vista would not find a driver for my Quickcam Traveler using this trick. No luck so far...

yep22 said...

Quickcam Traveler update: Downloaded the XP driver for the Traveler provided on the Logitech website. Installed normally and rebooted. Vista disallowed the autorun installer part2 and the new hardware detection came up but I noticed the webcam was already streaming by this time. So I cancelled the new hardware wizard and rebooted and ALL GOOD!

phazio said...

I was wondering, is it possible to use the Microphomne aswell? How and where do i set it to be the microphone if i use an ASIO card as main? I've tried it all, but doesen't seem to work with my Ventrilo 3.0.