Thinking about getting a web cam - when shopping last week, my daughter noticed WalMart had one for about $20.

My oldest daughter, 2,000 miles away has one, so my first instinct is that it wouldn't be bad

Would like to hear others' opinions on web cams...thanks for your input!

Went ahead and picked it up today since I happened to be at WalMart. It's a Veo Stingray web-cam.

When we installed it, my computer froze and all we could get was the wallpaper - no toolbar, no icons, nothing!

Re-booting didn't help - we would get the Windows ME startup screen, it would go to the wallpaper and no further.

A friend of my daughter is a computer whiz so he came over - couldn't figure out what the heck was going on. He called the manufacturer and they tried to help - since we couldn't even get INTO Windows to uninstall it, all they could suggest was to call Gateway, since they could tell him how to open Windows with no start-up screen.

Eventually, everything worked out (whew!), and the web-cam and everything else is working fine. Unfortunately, I wasn't in the room while he was talking with Gateway, so I don't know what the problem turned out to be - I'm just happy it's fixed, otherwise I wouldn't be here tonite!

Giz, I too have been thinking about a webcam... but I am afraid of getting one.. don't want to feel obligated to get made-up and dressed if I am messing around after a shower or whatever.