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TL;DR: How to unregister a camera from Windows?

Windows 7 Professional

I've (stupidly) installed some drivers that would allow my smartphone to appear as a webcam in Windows. I have since removed the associated application

However, things like Skype and Chrome still think I have a webcam. And they try to launch it, which results in "Critical Error: Could not start iWebcamera App."

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I see the same error popup periodically in Chrome too.

Neither Skype nor Chrome offer any way to "remove" a camera, so I suppose it is upto Windows to unregister the camera, but I can't seem to find out how.

I tried looking under Device Manager, but couldn't find anything there either.

Question is: How do I unregister a camera from Windows? How can I tell Windows I don't have such a camera that it thinks I do. Where does Windows store it's information about available cameras?

Slav
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Uninstall Skype

Download and Run Malware Bytes https://www.malwarebytes.org/

Alongside your Anti-Virus and i'd Recommend CCleaner as well https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

After running these tools and removing anything unwanted, re-install Skype.

I use AVG, Malware Bytes, and CCleaner for cleaning nearly all computers i work on.

Ryan
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