Webcam woes (re posted)

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uninstall the messenger programs
update and run spyware and virus checkers.
wait a boot or two before reinstalling and trying your favorite messenger
program

"Philip French" <prf@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eCJwH$WYFHA.3488@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've been experiencing major problems when trying to use webcams in any
> messenger program. Whenever I try to view images from other peoples
> webcams
> OR use my webcam, all goes well for 20 or 30 seconds then I get the
> bluescreen of death. My own cam is a Creative 1001, but this is unlikely
> to
> be the source of the problem as things go wrong even if I disable my cam &
> just try to view the images from other cams. I am running XP professional
> with sp2 installed, on a Duron powered PC with 512 Mb of RAM.
> In fact, the problem seems to have started with the installation of sp2,
> however I am reluctant to use system restore to roll back to pre-sp2 as
> the
> security patches it contains would seem to be desirable!
> I have made sure that I have the latest Creative driver, but as I said, my
> cam is not to blame.
> Any ideas? (this is second posting, first got no reply!!)
> regards
>
> Phil French
>
>