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What have I learnt today? Webcam fail in Windows 10 anniversary I read a tweet shortly after the Windows anniversary update stating that lots of webcams have stopped working. I didn't think too much of it until I tried to join a VC this morning using Polycom RealPresence Desktop app. It kept crashing when joining the VC and my brain kicked into gear. I found the following link and applied the workaround registry settings and my webcam worked again! http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/blog/Windows-Enterprise-Desktop/Possible-Fix-for-Win10-AU-Webcam-Fail (edit the registry at your own risk!) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform EnableFrameServerMode, and its DWORD value should be set to 0 (zero). The background is that in previous versions of Windows, only 1 application was able to access a webcam at any one point