LifeCam Studio brought back to life with Firmware update

  • Thread starter Lukasz Pawlowski -- MS
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Lukasz Pawlowski -- MS

Recently my LifeCam Studio stopped working with Windows 10. Until March 2020, it worked fine then a Windows update broke it.


The error I received was 0xA00F4271<MediaCaptureFailedEvent> (0x80070018) when opening the Camera app in Windows 10.



After looking through multiple threads, I didn't find a solution that worked


Finally I found the product page for LifeCam Studio, which doesn't mention Windows 10!

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-ca/d/lifecam-studio


This threw me off initially, but after someone showed me that their LifeCam Studio worked perfectly fine on Windows 10, I tried a Hail Mary:



I installed the Firmware update for Windows 7 32 and 64-bit, download from the page above, or here's the direct link:

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=209530&clcid=0x409


Now the camera works again.

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