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Webcam Bleg

OK, I have this cute little Logitch Orbit webcam.  I have a Yahoo Messenger account.  Now I want to video-chat with a pal who also has Yahoo messenger.  I can get a picture of my pal, via his webcam, but I can’t send him a picture of me, via mine.  When I click the Messenger webcam menu, it opens up a window all right, but what is showing in the window is the last station I watched via my TV tuner (front end is Win Fast PVR).  I can even send that to my pal–he can watch my TV–neat, or what? 

How do I get my webcam into that window?  Neither Logitech not Messenger help is any help, of course.  (“Just click the Webcam button to get started!” says Logitech breezily.  What webcam button?  Messenger doesn’t have one.  If I click the webcam **menu option** I’m looking at Larry King.) 

How do I tell Messenger to take its video from my webcam, not from my TV tuner?

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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