AdeW wrote:
On Jun 21, 3:05 am, Paul wrote:
AdeW wrote:
At the moment, with my UVC compliant camera, it took over 30 seconds,
but eventually the "Scanner and Camera Wizard"
Is that searching for drivers?
Look in your "Control Panel" folder, for an item called "Scanners and Cameras".
If an image device has a proper driver installed, the device may be registered
and detected in "Scanners and Cameras".

This screenshot shows "Scanners and Cameras" but there's nothing below
it, meaning nothing detected.

http://cid-64f5892d2f88d17f.photos.l...era%20plus.JPG

When I have tried to uninstall Amcap (from the mini CD I received with
the camera), it goes through the uninstall process but afterwards I go
to the start menu, programs and find it is still there and am able to
launch the program exactly as before! So I decided to resort to using
the add/remove programs feature to finally get rid of it and have
things back to how it was before.

But letting windows hunt for drivers - where it settled on the HP
Basic Starter Camera driver, I try Picasa but that doesn't get any
pictures and nothing in "Control Panel" "Scanners and Cameras".

I tried plugging in the dental camera into a 2nd PC also running
windows XP and this time i did *not* install the Amcap (USBPCCamPlus)
software. I instead decided to just let Windows automatically look for
drivers. In "Control Panel" "Scanners and Cameras" it shows HP Basic
Starter Camera and I got moving pictures! Picasa 3 also gets gets
moving pictures too.

Could the Amcap install have ruined the first computer that even an
uninstall didn't fix?

InstallShield installers, should usually have an uninstallation option.
And it should be visible in all the normal places. InstallShield would
normally do a decent job of uninstallation.

Now, I examined your driver installation, using Wine in Ubuntu 10.04
for safety. In there, I can find this directory - the contents of this,
hold portions of the USB PC Camera Plus installer. (I hope that
I have copied the directory name correctly - in the environment
I'm using, I cannot copy and paste these things.)

Program Files/InstallShield Installation Information/{ECD03DA7-5952-406A-8156-5F0C93618D1F}

In there is a file called "setup.exe". If you double click that, you
may see an install/uninstall dialog appear. That should allow InstallShield
to run the uninstallation, as defined by Sonix/Microdia when they set up
their InstallShield package. An uninstaller is only as thorough, as the
people using the tools, so if an idiot set up the InstallShield, then
it may leave garbage all over the place.

You should have seen uninstallation options in other places, such as
just below the Amcap entry in your Start:Programs entry for Amcap.

If you cannot find uninstallation options in the regular Windows places,
then find that {ECD03DA7-5952-406A-8156-5F0C93618D1F} directory and
use the "setup.exe" file inside. The options presented in the dialog
Window should be "Modify", "Repair", "Remove". Give the Remove a
try.

I notice as well, that installer sprinkled stuff in the C:\Windows
folder, which doesn't seem like such a good choice of a place for
such files. Hopefully, the uninstaller will sweep all that crap
out of there.

If that did not clean it up, you always have the option of reinstalling
it, to put the files back where they were, and trying the uninstallation
process again. If you've been manually deleting things, I can't predict
here, what InstallShield will think of that. But reinstalling would put
everything back, such that the uninstaller will get a chance to properly
remove it.

Paul