How can I take a picture with my built-in laptop camera with Windows 7?

Question

In Windows XP, My Computer showed me cameras as devices that I could use to take pictures or videos without any third-party software.

How can I do the same in Windows 7?

Solution 1

There are a number of websites that can take pictures. Usually they use Flash to access your webcam. Here's one: http://www.cameroid.com

Also try searching the web for "take webcam pictures online."

Solution 2

You can use Media Player Classic or VLC, both can open devices as source, and then save the video as image.

MS paint can also capture images from webcam (menu > from camera...) but unfortunately sometimes it can't recognize the webcam correctly

Solution 3

Usually if the computer doesn't come with a native program, I use Live Movie Maker which does have webcam feature in its latest iteration.

Solution 4

Found another answer that helped. Clicked start, searched for 'camera' then 'webcam' and found with 2nd keyword:

Acer Crystal Eye Webcam

This sounded like a real app vs scanners and printers -> that in my case listed nothing as have never installed or configured any.

Clicked this, it had an easy interface - one butto take a webcam snap shot and another to start recording. Saved pictures in my home folder\Pictures directory

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Comments

[Arvind Jha]

What kind of computer, which webcam?

[Nathan Fellman]

@MichaelK: It's a Lenovo T410 laptop.

[Admin]

Lenovo/IBM: how-can-i-take-a-picture-with-my-webcam-in-windows-7 - It uses the built-in drivers/program.

[Palec]

OT: On Windows 10, there is a pre-installed Microsoft app called Camera.

[kokbira]

but so you have record a video and then save one frame