Recent content by Jim Rockford

Just FYI to all, I've decided to stop work on this problem for now and wait to see if Microsoft or someone else finds a fix. ChatGPT has basically thrown in the towel for now. It's suggesting that rebuilding the CAM database involves some risk that is probably not worth taking. I think it's...

I just did this and rebooted. No joy, but thanks for the support. Thanks for the suggestions, but the camera quit a long time ago and I've learned to just do without it. Believe me, the camera is dead. Evidently Dell used some junk camera hardware back in the day and many were left with...

Thanks. But it's truly dead. There is no external key or switch to shut it off. If I navigate to Settings>Bluetooth&Devices>Camera, I get the message "No cameras found"

OK. I navigated to the appropriate section of the registry and found this: I'm confused about where or if to add a new key. Thanks for any help.

Well, this seemed very promising, but, after steps 1 and 2, above, no joy. Is step 3 necessary? My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7390 2n1. Access to the BIOS is via F2. Once there, I navigated to the "System Configuration" section and found a setting for "Enable camera". It was "on" so I...

Well, fixing this settings crashing problem, considering it only affects location, camera, and microphone, is not worth the disruption that will be caused by "re-installing", in whatever way, Windows. The last time I did this it only disguised the WiFi connection problem by effectively deleting...

All "Running"

I have not tried this, but I will note that, as part of my interaction with ChatGPT, I created a new user and tried to access location, camera, and microphone privacy settings, to no avail. I don't know a lot about the registry, but changing a setting under "Current User" seems unlikely to...

I re-installed Windows (or is it "reset"?) using this approach as part of my long wrestling match with the WiFi connection problem. A relatively short time later, we learned that the WiFi connection problem was being caused by the CAM file size problem, so I was led to try to stop location...

I've done these steps several times. See posts 9 and 10 in this thread. Should I do them again?

No, I did not. I just now did, though, and the Settings app crashed,so, after rebooting, no joy.

Just to be clear, I've never been on "insider" builds. I "upgraded" to the current build only because it purportedly fixed the CAM db file size problem I was having, which in turn was impacting my WiFi connect time. The Settings app was crashing under the previous older version, which was not...

Thanks, but still no joy. Settings still crashes.

It sounds like you're saying I should abandon any efforts to "rebuild" the CAM database. Is that right? My system was upgraded from Windows 10 some time ago.

I've not detected any problems in other areas of the Settings app. In particular, no problems with System/Advance, Accounts/sign-in, and Apps/Advanced.