Toucam solution for vista users !!

Hi All,
I recently got my hands on vista and like all of you long suffering vista users out there, I discovered that the toucam software would not install, I actually like vista, I don't want to uninstall it as its on a very hefty laptop so the OS min specs aren't an issue.
So after doing abit of digging , I found this.
www.azcendant.com/VistaToUcamInstall.htm

Ive performed the instructions as per the file and it works !!!
No need to get another webcam. I couldn't find "usbhub20.sys" mentioned in their instructions, but it worked anyway.
I've copied the links contents and pasted them below, incase their site ever goes down.
Like they say in their instructions, use at your own risk.


Here is the procedure we used to install the WinXP drivers for the ToUcam 740K on our Vista systems:

1. Create a new directory (folder) called VistaInstallToUcam.
2. From the original Philips installation disk, copy the following files to VistaInstallToUcam:

Agcgauge.ax
Camaud20.inf
Camcom20.inf
Camdrv20.cat
Camdrv20.sys
Camdrv21.cat
Camdrv21.sys
camext20.ax
camext20.dll
Camsti20.inf
camtwn20.ds
Camusb20.sys
fpxlib.dll
jpeglib.dll
phtmphlp.htm
toucam.vic
toucam.voc
VidSink.ax
vortm.dll
winvocon.dll


3. From the original Philips installation disk's MS\XP\English directory, copy the following files to VistaInstallToUcam:

camdsh20.inf
camvid20.inf

4. From your WinXP machine where the ToUcam software has been successfully installed, copy the following files from your windows installation directory (Might be called Windows, or WINNT, or whatever. Its where the system32 directory is anyway...) to VistaInstallToUcam:

system32\msh263.drv
system32\sti.dll
system32\drivers\stream.sys
system32\drivers\USBAUDIO.sys
system32\drivers\usbcamd2.sys
system32\drivers\usbd.sys
system32\drivers\usbhub.sys
system32\drivers\usbhub20.sys
Help\740audpp.gif
Help\740campp.gif
Help\740imgpp.gif
Help\740pphlp.htm

5. Plug in the ToUcam.
6. A "Found New Hardware" window will come up. Select "Locate and install driver software"
7. IMPORTANT! Cancel this window!!!
8. Go to Control Panel - System - Device Manager.
9. You will see, under "Other devices" an "Unknown
device". That is the ToUcam...
10. Right-click "Unknown device" then choose "Update Driver Software..."
11. An "Update Driver Software" window will come up. Select "Browse my computer for driver software"
12. Browse... to the VistaInstallToUcam directory. Make sure "include subfolders" is checked (shouldn't matter but that's what I'm doing...)
13. Choose "Next".
14. Window should say "Installing driver software".
15. System will complain about not being able to verify the publisher. Choose "Install this driver software anyway."
16. After some delay, a window will come up and say "Windows has successfully updated your driver software". Your camera should now be working.
17. You might have to run through the same procedure starting at step 9 and look under "Sound, video and game controllers" to get the audio subsystem installed.

NEW!
18. Copy VistaInstallToUcam/camext20.ax to the system32 directory.
(Added on 1 December 07 when we suddenly realized we could not
display the camera "Properties", i.e., "settings" window
in HandyAvi!) You need to be able to display the camera
properties to set the brightness, contrast, frame rate, etc.
This file apparently controls all that.


NEW!
19. Now, the Camext20.ax file needs to be "registered". I don't know
why regsvr32 cannot do the job but you should open a command
window with administrator privileges (Click on Start, go to
Programs -> Accessories, right click on Command Prompt
and choose Run as administrator), change directory to the
VistaInstallToUcam directory and run the following command:

rundll32 advpack.dll, LaunchINFSection camdsh20.inf, phdsext.registration.740

This runs the [phdsext.registration.740] section of the camdsh20.inf
file. We have the ToUcam 740 working properly with HandyAvi now on two
of our Vista machines here. (There may be an easier way to do
all of this now that we have discovered how to use rundll32?)


If anything went wrong (you accidentally let the system try to locate its own set of drivers instead of paying attention to step 7 for example), then, in the Device Manager, under "Imaging devices", right click the ToUcam or Unknown device and select "Uninstall". Similarly under Sound, video and game controllers". Then unplug the camera from the USB port, wait a moment, then plug it back in. You then will be at step 6 above, ready to try again and get it right.

Worked for us. No guarantees. You assume all risk.

(Seems better though than trying to update the firmware in the camera to SPC900 which is an alternative. If anything goes wrong during a firmware download, there is often nothing you can do.)