There is no photobooth type software that comes with Windows 7. So I went on a download and trial spree of some of the software I found mentioned on forums etc. One of them locked my iSight camera and it stopped working on my main applications, most importantly Skype. A look at the Apple support docs suggested it might be an issue isolated to only my user account. This wasn’t the case and the problem remained in not only all Windows 7 accounts but also the ones on Mac OS X.
I tried to repair my boot camp drivers at first, but soon realized that won’t fix it for the simple reason that the problem exists on the OS X side of things as well, which bootcamp can do nothing about. The way to solve this was pretty simple, just shutdown the system! I was earlier only restarting and jumping between windows and mac os. Simply restarting does not make it work. If after shutting down the camera functionality does not come up you can try a SMC reset.
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