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turn off camera without admin rights

Anonymous
2018-08-10T15:13:08+00:00

I have a windows 10 laptop from work.

I do not have admin rights.

But I want to turn off/disable the camera.

The device manager I cannot disable the driver.  Can I do this in regedit?

I see this

Go to Start , then select Settings  > Privacy > Camera.

Does this turn off the camera?  nothing can turn it on?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T17:03:48+00:00

    Hello how are you, thanks for posting in our microsoft community, I leave the following information I hope I can help you

    https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/how-do-...

    https://www.top-password.com/blog/enable-disabl...

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    Best Regards

    Miguel C.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T17:03:24+00:00

    Hello how are you, thanks for posting in our microsoft community, I leave the following information I hope I can help you

    https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/how-do-...

    https://www.top-password.com/blog/enable-disabl...

    Best Regards

    Miguel C.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T16:09:01+00:00

    I see this

    Go to Start , then select Settings  > Privacy > Camera.

    Does this turn off the camera?  nothing can turn it on?

    If you dont have permissions in device manager you wont have permissions in registry for those also.

    Start / Settings / Privacy / Camera    < lots of things to turn off there and it should disable everything listed from accessing camera, but if you run something that needs the camera there is always the chance it may not ask permissions.

    I've disabled my camera in bios/setup - some computers dont offer that setting, so a piece of tape over the camera is really popular, even for the head honcho's of some higher tech corporations, like the facebook guy.

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