Wasn't actually a problem, just a poorly-designed UI. ThinkVantage
Communications Snapshot button opened up a new window with the snapshot in
it. Unfortunately, this window wound up on the bottom of the window stack,
so it wasn't until I minimized everything that I found it, and it was a
"Toolbox" window so it never showed up on the taskbar.

Annoying.
- Alex
-- 
It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of
yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers.


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Alex Austin <[email protected]>wrote:

> In Windows XP, I could to go My Computer and the webcam would show up
> there. Double-Clicking it would "open" the camera in Explorer - the view
> looked similar to the filmstrip mode of a pictures folder, but with a live
> camera view on top and a list of taken pictures on the bottom, plus a button
> to take pictures.
>
> Wind Windows 7, on my X120e, I don't see the camera in My Computer. I
> opened the Scanner and Camera Wizard and it doesn't show up there either.
> Pressing Fn-F6 opens ThinkVantage Communications where I can see the current
> view from the camera. There's a button labeled Take Snapshot. The first time
> I clicked that, the whole window went away. I went looking in my Pictures
> folder to see if it had shown up there, but I didn't see it. So, I hit Fn-F6
> again, and now the Take Snapshot button is disabled.
>
> In Device Manager, pulling up the webcam and looking at Driver Details
> shows some files in C:\Windows\twain_32, but it seems Scanner and Camera
> Wizard can't find them.
>
> Any idea how to take a snapshot from this webcam?
>
> - Alex
> --
> It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of
> yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers.
>
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