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Dear Microsoft, I have one of your products, the VX-3000 camera. I've used for years until one day I lost the camera in a move. I then found the camera , tried to install a driver to run it on Windows 10, and I found that there are no drivers. I've read some of discussions regarding the VX-3000 driver and support, but I found that the discussion was closed and Microsoft did not post any viable solution. In my opinion, seems that Microsoft is ignoring this issue and it wants the issue to die and never come back. I'm not very happy with MS' lack of interest and I feel that MS' apathy would lead me to shy away from buying any microsoft hardware because of the apparent planned obsolescence. That is one reason why I stay away from Apple products. Now for the sake of MS' redemption and my getting my VX-3000 operational again, I ask: Where can I access the latest drivers for the VX-3000? I don't care if the latest driver is for Windows 7 as I'll make it work in compatibility mode. To the community, I appreciate your good intentions to provide a driver from a different source, but I find it hard to trust the driver from an alternate source due to the possibility of it harboring a trojan malware.
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I had the same problem before. My PC's OS is Windows 11 and I got the driver from Microsoft Update Catalog Webpage ( https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=vx-3000 ). There are two versions(5.12.1.67) of drivers for Windows 7. One is for X86 and the other one is for AMD64 architecture. I got the AMD64 package and unzipped it to a new folder. After updating the driver of VX-3000 in Device Manager, it worked. I hope this is userful to you.
18+-year-old devices are way beyond the product support life cycle of any product. There will be no more updates for such an old device nor should any reasonable person expect any. Topics get closed once they are dormant for months. If there are no other newer topics on the subject, it simply means people are no longer posting questions on that old hardware.
The device will either work with the generic "USB Video Device" UVC drivers that come with Windows or fully/partially with the Windows Vista+ camera drivers.
You can obtain "Windows 7" (aka Windows XP/Vista) drivers that may work with newer OSes:
LifeCam 3.22 - 32/64-bit package [archive.org] - Internet archive mirror obtained from download.microsoft.com (where it used to be hosted). This is as legitimate a source as you can get from a third party.
Below are officially hosted cabinet files that can be unpacked or "unzipped" to access the drivers: "Windows 7" 64-bit drivers and 32-bit drivers that are currently hosted in the Windows Update catalog
