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AkVCamManager Remove-Devices Issue #65

Open PoshLemur opened 2 years ago

PoshLemur commented 2 years ago

OS: Windows 11 Professional AkVCam version: 9.1.0

I used the 64 bit version of AkVCamManager/Assistant.

I had created some test devices and then removed them and removed the service.

AkVCamManager remove-devices
AkVCamManager hack set-service-down

After issuing remove-devices I ran AkVCamManager devices And AkVCamManager returned empty, so I then removed the service and rebooted.

However, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox still see the test devices. While AkVCamManager and Windows settings continue to report there are no devices. If I plug in real webcam Chrome, Edge, and Firefox will detect it and list it, but it will be removed from the list as soon as I unplug it as I would expect.

Below are some screenshots just to visually confirm what I wrote.

P.S. If anyone knows how I can remove these erroneous devices manually, please let me know.

akv-edge Screenshot Edge website permissions page.

akv-cmd Screenshot AkVManager via Windows CMD.

akv-windows-settings Screenshot Windows 11 Camera Settings

PoshLemur commented 2 years ago

I figured out how to manually remove them, there were some garbage entries left in the registry that were not removed upon camera deletion. They were stored under the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86}

{860BB310-5D01-11d0-BD3B-00A0C911CE86} has a descriptor 'VFW Capture Class Manager' so that makes sense.