Windows 10 Windows 10 Camera app not working

[lpaschal8]

My HP computer is running Windows 10 1803. The camera app opens and appears to work, then freeze. After restoring my computer to factory settings, the camera worked until I installed all the updates. The driver has been uninstalled & re-installed. that didn't fix the issue. The camera is the HP Wide Vision FHD. Is there a known fix?

 

[livix07]

You can try a different camera app, just to check if it is caused by the app or not. Try VLC player:

Choose your video device as below:

 

[livix07]

Are there any yellow triangles with exclamation mark on them in Device Manager?

 

[Neemobeer]

I would suggest re-installing the UWP camera application. You can do it from a Powershell prompt

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Name *windowscamera* | % { Add-AppxPackage "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode }