I have McAfee and your workaround did not work.
My webcam works perfectly with Skype so I know it's this useless WLM2009
which was offered as an upgrade in an email from the Windows Live team. I
wish I'd never heard of them!
I want to delete WLM2009 and revert to the previous 8.5... version which
worked perfectly but I cannot. I deleted all the WLM2009 software and tried
to install from Microsoft's web page but the installation fails.
Does anyone know how to get a working copy of Messenger. Using Google only
offers up version 8.1 which also doesn't install.
thanks
"Ron" wrote:
Quote:
> I uninstalled McAfee 'Firewall' and used another product -- this corrected
> the problem with WLM9, XP sp3 using Microsoft LifeCam 6000. I reinstalled
> McAfee firewall - broke it again - uninstalled - works perfect. Now using
> another firewall product.
>
> "Mike" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Hi there
> > I've seen a few posts on other boards relating to this problem. When I
> > updated from WLM2008 to 2009, Messenger suddenly refused to do video or audio
> > calls at all (giving a message that the Cam could not be started and may be
> > busy etc....)
> >
> > When I try to run Audio & Video setup from the Tools menu, it returns an
> > error message that says 'We are unable to run audio & video setup'
> >
> > I can log in fine and send and receive instant messages and see contacts and
> > all was fine before the upgrade from 2008 to 2009.
> >
> > If someone could help with this it would be much appreciated - I normally
> > have video chats with my sister in Greece several times a week and am missing
> > these very badly!
> >
> > Running Vista 32 SP1
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mike