When I first purchased the camera I had Vista Home Edition on my laptop and it worked fine. Although I had to go through several installs to get it all working, it did work well once the installation finished. One thing that was a problem was the microphone settings defaulted to something other than the Logitech 9000, which caused it to fail. The dialog box that appears (automatically when installation is near finished) to set the environment up should pick itself as the default, but that was not the case, thus the microphone would not work. Be sure to check this out if it happens to you and select the Logitech 9000.
I upgraded to Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit as I really wanted the BitLocker feature since I travel with the laptop and am concerned with data theft should I lose the laptop. The Logitech WebCam software will not install completely and hangs. A reboot does not fix it. I even tried running it with Administrative privilege and XP compatibility mode. I removed and reinstalled it many times to no avail. I finally removed the WebCam software, but left all the drivers installed. I researched the Internet, but could not find anything specific to this issue. Having removed the WebCam software Skype and other programs were able to use both the camera and all its features (face tracking, zoom, etc.) including the microphone. What I am missing, and can quite frankly do without, are the Avitars, Quick Snap pictures, etc.. It would be nice to have as my granddaughter was quite amused by them.
All in all, I think it is a good setup and would buy it again. Hopefully Logitech will update their program for use with Vista Ultimate.
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