what i do when i’m supposed to be working

So I picked up the Logitech Buddy Cam 2-pack at Geeks.com a few weeks ago for $18.  Not bad, eh?  Well, they work great…except on the PC I need them to work on, which runs Windows Vista.

Luckily I found this awesome little page with instructions that worked perfectly for me.

The situation is this: the XP driver for (most models of) the camera works under Vista, but the bundled logitech QuickCam 8.x software does not.  The solution, you ask?

• Download the 8.x software package, and extract the driver from it (without installing the software).
• Plug your camera in, point Vista to the driver you extracted, and your hardware is installed.
• The final step is to go to the driver page for one of the newer model cameras and download the QuickCam 10.x or 11.x software (which does work with Vista) and install that.  It’ll pick your camera right up and use it.