I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post my question but here goes? My microscope camera I bought on fleabay a few years ago stopped working a few weeks after using it? Ive since re-installed win 7 64 bit on HP P6-2203a with A8550 CPU,8GB ram, 2 x 1 TB HDD. Ive decided to get serious again and try and get it to work. I plugged it into a blue USB slot on the front of the computer and a message came up saying it was downloading the driver. I then tried to find where to click it to start?

But I couldn't find anything? Thats including the device manager,imaging devices only had the normal USB camera? Ive tried in the past to download different microscope drivers but nothing ever worked? I'm 60+ y/o, so a bit behind on the software side of things?

The microscope has no brand name or markings and the seller has long departed fleabay.When I first plugged it in, it just worked with no CD to download drivers or anything? Any ideas on how I could get this going again would be appreciated. Plug it into a non-blue USB port (USB2.0) Open device manager, described in the link till nr. 4: Can you see any exclamation marks or question marks or unknown devices? Right click on the problematic device and left click properties Click Details tab Select Hardware Ids from the pull-down.

Software for digital microscope. Thread starter AnitaPeterson. The CoolingTech U500x microscope (also sold as Cytron and a half dozen other names) and its software was designed to run on Windows 2000 and XP, so it may not be fully compatible with. CoolingTech Microscope is used by 6 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 3.0, 3.5 and 4.5. The name of the program executable file is CoolingTech.exe.

You'll see a list of one or more Hardware Id strings post them I plugged it into a normal USB slot on the back of the computer but nothing came up in device manager? I restarted the computer and it still wasn't there? There are no question or exclamation marks in device manager either.I tried another USB slot and now it is on device manager! I updated the driver but still cant work out how to turn it on? How do I post the list of hardware ID strings here?

So it worked under Win7 64bit before? Yes, it was working great. I think it may have been corrupted by me using CCleaner to clean the registry?

It now appears in device manager and says; This device is working and it has the correct driver? Its just that I cant find anywhere to turn it on? I have another normal Canon camera that I upload photos to this computer through a cable,it doesn't come up on the device manager although it shouldn't anyway?

Ive been waiting for an email notification but it isn't working for some reason? You need a tool to run the camera like or I ran Yawcam and its acting just like malware? I was prompted to choose a program to use for it,so I chose windows media player? Now whatever I try to open WMP, will appear saying it cant download the file including WMP itself? I cant do a system restore or set the program again because of this.All the icons on the desktop and elsewhere have blanked out and I cant log onto Firefox.my email etc.Its taken me all day trying to work this out and I don't know how I got here to post this really,I was trying everything when I noticed the address bar? Any idea how I can get out of this mess? The links I gave you are save.

Uninstalling yawcam would have been the easiest way to get rid of it, or at bottom right, there should be an icon of yawcam, just right -click on it an 'exit' instead of windows media player you should use java/javascript up to date java installed yet? Did you try to load the oldest restore point? That´s the only way your computer is acting so weird now. Many applications were installed since this point were made. All have to be installed again, or you try the newest restore point made of the system. My computer is acting as though it has a virus? Every time I try to fix it,I'm stopped from doing it?