Your webcam may be used by another application. Close the application to start video streaming. Help please?

[Dell Inc.]

Hello, I am Nitika from the Dell Social Media outreach team.
As you have alreday done so many troubleshooting steps which is appreciated.

You ar egetting error that your webcam may be used by another application so what you can do is check if some application is ruuning in the background.

check if you are running a face recognition program for logging in to Windows .

please right-click on the app (FastAccess Face Recognition) and temporarily disable it - the Dell Webcam Central will work fine. Afterwards just re-enable the face recognition app.

If in case you do face any challenges in the process, please feel free to contact me directly by sending me a private message or by through a reply to this blog.
We would recommend you do not post your private information on a public forum .

Thanks & Regards
DELL_NITIKA_K
Dell Social Media Responder






Please try the below mentioned steps and also make sure that no third party application running in the bacground such as PICASA,SKYPE,YOCAM.....

Go to your Device Manager
click the plus sign next to Imaging Devices
Select Integrated Webcam.
Right click that and select Update Driver Software.

Download the latest driver it found and restart your computer
I hope this helps you.