• Click Start - Programs - Creative - Creative WebCam - Creative WebCam Center.
• Right-click the Creative Cam Detector icon in your Taskbar, and select Launch Creative WebCam Center. (This icon appears if, during installation, you clicked the option for Creative Cam Detector to load automatically at Windows startup.)
• Plug your camera into the USB port and let Windows auto-detect it. Choose to start Creative WebCam Center in Capture mode from a popup window that appears



Note Creative WebCam Center automatically detects your installed webcam, and disables any unsupported features on the user interface.

With WebCam Center, you can take photos and record videos. Photos and videos captured with Creative WebCam Center are saved in the default media folder.

Taking a Photo

• In the Creative WebCam Center window, click the Capture tab.
• Click the Photo Resolution box and select the resolution that you want.
• Click the Snap photo button to capture an image. Images are saved as files in the default media folder.
• To view the photos in the image viewer, double-click the image files in the Thumbnails/Details pane.

Recording a Video

• In the Creative WebCam Center window, click the Capture tab.
• Click the Video Resolution box and select the resolution that you want.
• Click the Record button to start and stop video recording.
• Videos are saved as files in the default media folder when you stop recording.
• To view the videos in the video viewer, double-click the video files in the Thumbnails/Details pane.

If your computer goes into standby mode, your camera will go into suspend mode. You can reactivate the camera and computer by moving the mouse or pressing a key on the keyboard.

Note: For detailed information about the Creative WebCam Center features and settings, refer to its Help file. (In Creative WebCam Center's main window, click Help)

We recommend you do the following:

• Ensure that the camera's USB connector is inserted, and that the USB connector is enabled in the BIOS. Refer to your computer's documentation for information on the BIOS.
• Reinstall the video capture drivers and restart your computer.

You may have USB devices drawing too much power from your computer. This can happen especially when connecting USB devices to a passive or self-powered USB hub. In Windows XP, a dialog box similar to the above figure appears.

We recommend you do the following:

• Connect the camera directly to your computer's USB port.
• Use a USB hub with an external power supply.

There are too many devices in the system, causing IRQ (interrupt request line) problems with the system's USB controller.

We recommend you do the following:

• Remove some devices from the system.
• Restart the system.
• The system will rearrange the resources automatically.

At the time of this product's release, Microsoft strongly encouraged companies to submit their hardware solutions for certification. If a hardware device driver is not submitted, or does not qualify, for Microsoft certification, a warning message similar to the one below appears.

You may see this message when installing a driver. If you do, you may choose to click the Continue Anyway button. Creative has tested the driver on Windows XP, and it does not impair or destabilize your computer

While testing Creative WebCam Instant on motherboards with integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, we encountered a small number of motherboards that do not meet the USB specification exactly. These and other non-USB-compliant motherboards may not operate correctly with Creative WebCam Instant. Fortunately, the manufacturers of some of these motherboards have released new versions of motherboards or BIOS to address the problem.

If the setup program warns you that your motherboard's USB port is incompatible with Creative WebCam Instant, or if the camera does not work on your system and you suspect that the problem may be related to your computer's USB port, the following is a list of available options:

• Contact your computer vendor.Your computer vendor may be able to upgrade your motherboard or its BIOS to a newer version that addresses USB incompatibilities.
• Use a PCI host adapter that provides USB connectors.If you are not able to upgrade your motherboard or its BIOS, we recommend this approach.
• Attach the Creative WebCam Instant to a USB hub with an external power supply. Some USB devices (such as monitors) also operate as USB hubs; you can also buy USB hubs which are to be attached to your computer's USB port. However, in some cases, attaching a USB hub to a non-USB-compliant USB motherboard connector will not solve the problem.