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CamStudioIM Won't Open

edited March 2013 in Support
I have installed the program twice and all it does, when I click on the icon on my desktop (I tried going through START | CamStudioIM, too) is open up my MY DOCUMENTS folder.

When I installed it, I first double clicked on the camcodec.inf file and a tiny window popped up for a milisecond and was gone. Then, I clicked on Install_CamStudioIM and it appeared to install, telling me it was finished.

I have Windows 7. I'm not sure what other info to add. Any help for this odd problem would be much appreciated.

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  • edited March 2013
    I do not know what CamStudioIM even is.

    Anyway, you're clicking the codec installer in the second case.

    ONLY use the versions you get from our Sourceforge site to be safe.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/

    You'll need this installed also if it is not already on your computer to run 2.7:

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

    (You need this version even if you own a 64-bit machine, as CamStudio is 32-bit software.)

    Terry
  • Thank you very much Terry. I got the CamStudioIM as a free gift for subscribing to a mailing list. They said the difference in the IM version was that you have the option to direct the person watching the video to a URL when it's over.

    Thanks again!
  • Ahhh, yes, I remember that old version! Based upon 2.5, I think. I'd stick with the official version(s) unless you really need that feature in SWF files.

    Terry
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