The camera is used by another program Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

After boot-up when I try to start the camera through Life Frame or Google Talk the camera fails to start. However, if I launch Skype and start the camera there then exit the program the issue is solved temporarily (The camera starts in Life Frame, still failing to start in Gtalk). Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Navigate to Start>Default Programs>Set Default Programs.

From there you should be able to see which program your web cam has defaulted to and change it if necessary.

I am grateful for your help. Switching between applications is going to be intimidating task since Windows does not do it by itself. I will let you know if the problem recurs.

You're very welcome.

Please do post back if you get any further problems.

I have the same problem. But I can't see any program defaulted to my webcam. When I start any app that uses webcam it says that the camera is used by another program. I tried to kill the most of the processes with no effect. I also tried to uninstall it and install again but nothing changed. I even tried the system restore and this didn't help either.
Any ideas, please?

I am also experiencing the same problem .Whatever i do I'm getting the same message.It should a windows 7 home premium problem?or Asus N61J problem?
Please we need a help??

i have problem with sending ofline Video message .
Messenger says some other device useing web cam.
i have been able to us Video Chat no problems.
i have nothing else that cud be using it - Any suggestion ?
Am using win7 bit64