Windows 10: windows 10 camera is inaccessible

Windows 10 camera is inaccessible. Here is what I've done to try and find it:

Went on YouTube and tried virtually every remedy.

Went into PC Settings/Privacy - it is turned on for apps.

Went into Device Manager- highlighted hidden devices- nothing listed in any subcategory

Cannot reload a driver since I don't now the driver name/number.

I turned off all antivirus programs- rebooted, still no camera icon (Icon was a circle with a dot, called 'phd camera')

Tried contacting Microsoft with absolutely no response. Tried their website 'agent'- it apparently couldn't understand the problem and disconnected.

Went into 'regedit' per advice on one YouTube website- advice didn't work for me.


Does anyone here who has had this problem come up with a sane solution beside reinstalling Windows 10? This to me would be a last resort as it will take me almost a full day to get the computer back to working condition, after reloading quite a few necessary programs. (no games by the way).

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

windows 10 camera is inaccessible

Windows 10 camera is inaccessible. Here is what I've done to try and find it:

Went on YouTube and tried virtually every remedy.

Went into PC Settings/Privacy - it is turned on for apps.

Went into Device Manager- highlighted hidden devices- nothing listed in any subcategory

Cannot reload a driver since I don't now the driver name/number.

I turned off all antivirus programs- rebooted, still no camera icon (Icon was a circle with a dot, called 'phd camera')

Tried contacting Microsoft with absolutely no response. Tried their website 'agent'- it apparently couldn't understand the problem and disconnected.

Went into 'regedit' per advice on one YouTube website- advice didn't work for me.

Does anyone here who has had this problem come up with a sane solution beside reinstalling Windows 10? This to me would be a last resort as it will take me almost a full day to get the computer back to working condition, after reloading quite a few necessary
programs. (no games by the way).

 

INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE after Win10 Update


1) Find a flash drive that you can format ( > or = 8 GB)
2) Create a bootable windows 10 iso:
Download Windows 10
4) Insert the flash drive into any USB port
5) Open the BIOS and temporarily change boot order so that you can boot using the flash drive.
6) When the iso loads choose language, time, currency, and keyboard, or click next
7) In the left lower corner click "repair your computer"
8) Click troubleshoot
9) Click command prompt
This should open: Administrator: X:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources>

For all of the steps please use a camera or smart phone camera to take pictures and post images into the thread.

10) type: bcdedit | find "osdevice"
11) This may display osdevice partition=C:
12) type: diskpart
13) type: list disk
14) type: list volume
15) look under the column heading Fs for any volume that displayed RAW instead of NTFS
16) type: chkdsk /f /r G: (change G to the drive letter of the volume displaying RAW)
It may display "The first NTFS boot sector is unreadable or corrupt."
This may then convert the RAW volume to NTFS.
17) Type: exit
18) reboot to open the Windows advanced troubleshooting menu > command prompt > Administrator: X:\windows\system32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources>
19) type: bootrec /rebuildbcd
It may display:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] D:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes(Y)/No(N)/ALL(A):
20) Type: Y
The operation completed successfully.
X:\Windows>
21) Type: exit
22) reboot
See if the inaccessible boot device problem was fixed.

If the above did not fix the inaccessible boot device the next step is to remove the recent update:
23) Open command prompt > Administrator: X:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe > X:\Sources>
24) From the first command displaying the partition if the drive letter is different than C: please use the displayed drive letter for the next step
25) type: DISM /image:G:\ /cleanup-image /revertpendingactions (change G to the applicable drive letter)
26) This should remove the latest update and fix the inaccessible boot device.
27) If this does not fix the inaccessible boot device plan a registry repair.

Report into the thread your progress with images of the above steps.