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Question posted by anjali208 on April 7th, 2013

Some Other Application Using Web Cam And I Am Not Able To Capture Images

web cam problems

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Answer #1: Posted by tintinb on April 7th, 2013 4:44 PM

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This is usually related to a driver software issue which requires reinstallation of the driver software to be fixed properly. You can download the latest web camera driver for Dell Inspiron N5050 at Dell website. Here are the links to the download pages.

http://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/inspiron-15-intel-n5050-all.html

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/inspiron-15-intel-n5050

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Owners Manual - Page 23

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