The quality and resolution of the webcams of the portabletraditionally has always left a lot to be desired. With the coronavirus, the video calls became the main means of communication between friends and family and at work and we could check, and incidentally take the colors to laptop manufacturers, as they bet on a webcam of painful quality, forcing To many users to use the mobile replacement or buy one to use USB via.
As the Coronavirus began to disappear, the office work returned and the possibility of staying with friends and family, so most of the webcams have returned to use that they had previously: none. If we use a Desktop PCthe simplest if we do not use the webcam is to remove it and save it in a drawer.
In a laptop, we cannot remove the webcam from the screen frame (at least not without opening the equipment and running the risk of breaking the screen). Instead, many are the users who opt for the same technique of Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta and that is none other than uses a piece of tape of body or insulator on it. The problem of this method is to break the aesthetics completely, not to mention how ridiculous it remains.
Another option is to buy a cover Of those that sell in Temu, Alibaba and Shein to cover the webcam when we are not using it, a lid that, over time, always ends up taking off. The simplest, fast and safe solution goes through directly deactivate the webcam of our team through Windows.
In this way, we ensure that none of the applications we have installed in the equipment has access to it, including malicious software.
How to deactivate the webcam of a laptop
Unlike what many of you are thinking, it is not necessary to access the Device administrator and uninstall the system webcam, since it automatically activates without realizing it. The method we are going to use to safely disable the Windows webcam is through Windows configuration options.
To access the configuration options, the simplest method is using the Keyboard shortcut Win + i. Next, we access the menu Privacy and safety. Within this menu, we must look for the option Camera and click on her.
Now, in the menu that is right on the right, we access the option Access to the camera. By default, this option is activated. To deactivate this function we just have to change the switch position.
From this moment on, none of the applications we have installed in the equipment will have access to the camera. If any application wants to do it, Windows will show an informative message in the team in which it informs us of its intentions. The only way to allow the camera to access this configuration.
