I'm trying to find where the native Windows XP USB webcam app saves the images taken with a webcam connected. I've setup a VM of good ole xp and used a process monitor to see if I can capture where it's writing but no luck. If you double click the USB Video Device, you are connected to the webcam and can take pics. These pics however are not saved into the file system at first. They are somehow saved somewhere else. And it's device specific. i.e. if I unplug the USB webcam and plug into a different USB port, all previous pictures are gone…But if I plug back into the first USB port, those pics are now visible. I've tried searching the registry as well and still no luck. Below is an example of what I am referring to
Those 5 black images are named Picture 001…002…003 etc. I cant find them ANYWHERE on the file system or registry. Please help!
Thanks
scratch that… Found this on another site
C\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\WIA\{6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\DeviceID
where DeviceID is a unique ID that identifies the WIA device.
Greetings,
As a learning point, perhaps you should go back to your process for identifying where the photos were saved and determine why it didn't work?
_David