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Easter Sunday, a little extra time on my hands, I decided to play around with my new HP notebook. I hadn’t tried out everything on it yet, so I went exploring. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to use the built-in camera. What happened to the good old “Scanner and Camera Wizard” from XP, for instance?
Finally searched through the on-board help, which led me to a hitherto unexplored section of Control Panel where I could add the device. I wondered to myself, why didn’t HP do this for me? All the other devices just worked out of the box. Oh, great. We have to reboot.
And that’s when it happened: my very first BSOD on Vista.
The system recovery wizard launched automatically, but it was unable to automatically recover my system. What, no “safe mode” for rebooting? Yes, there is, as an “advanced recovery option”. But this “safe mode” is a bit too safe. No Start menu!
You can get to a command prompt, which I did. How do I launch MMC to get to the Device Manager? No mmc.exe anywhere.
A search for this type of problem led me to this article, which looked very promising. I followed the steps to the letter, and repeated them after they didn’t help. But the driver it kept failing on was the Microsoft Generic USB Driver (usbccgp.sys), which Vista apparently automatically starts, whether you disable it or not. Every time I’d look at the registry, the “Start” option had been reset to “3″.
Other people also seem to be having trouble with the built-in camera, but not the kind of trouble I’m having.
Another option in the recovery wizard is System Restore. But alas, I had not set any recovery points since I first got this computer. That will be a lesson to me.
One other option presented itself: restore to factory settings. After much soul-searching, that’s what I clicked. I keep all my data files on a separate server, so all I’m losing is the time it takes to reinstall all my software, plugins, and extensions, and set everything up again.
So much for having a little extra time.



Source:Vista blues -- Chip’s Quips