win10 doesn’t “see” usb webcam on reboot

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A few months ago I had asked why my win10/home laptop didn’t see its WiFi interface when I came out of hibernation and I got the answer that hibernation/restore doesn’t reset all the drivers [and I got a handy powershell command to reset the interface manually]

Since then I just shut down my laptop and reboot, slow as it is.   But: it doesn’t recognize the webcam when I reboot.  I do a full shutdown and when win10 boots up it doesn’t see my USB webcam.  If I unplug and plug the webcam back in all is well.

Any advice on how to fix this more easily than climbing over my stuff to reach behind the laptop to unplug it and plug it back in?  It’d be nice if win10 were just well-behaved about this and it “just worked”, but it seems not to.

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Bernie,

This may be a bit “kludgy” but, before you shut down or restart the computer, go to Device Manager and uninstall the camera (don’t delete the drivers). It should reinstall on bootup.

Zig

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You might try Nir Sofer’s small, free and portable USBDeview (making sure to download the correct ‘bitness’ for your Windows).

From v2.85 it includes an option to create a desktop shortcut that can be set to carry out a *specific* action on a *specific* USB device.

So, for example (as I don’t have a webcam)… say I had a similar situation whereby my USB scanner wasn’t recognised after a reboot.

I could run USBDeview (using Run as administrator), *right*-click on the entry for my scanner (when it was recognised) then choose Create Desktop Shortcut then Enable Device.

This will create the following desktop shortcut:

Because I ran USBDeview using Run as administrator, the desktop shortcut’s target (in its Properties), will include similar elevation and point specifically to the scanner using its unique Vendor/Device ID value (stored in the registry).

I can’t guarantee that this will work for you ‘cos I don’t have a way of duplicating the issue you are having. However, this is quick to set up and test.

Hope this helps…

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wavy, berniec

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I’ll give it a try…. /b\

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