Photo Booth and hard reset

Recently I wanted to show my friend photo booth. I chose it from the dock, but it kept jumping without coming on. I launched activity monitor to see if something wasn't eating my RAM, but it showed only photo booth in red. I then tried to force quit it, but it didn't quit. Suddenly a beachball appeared and kept spinning and spinning.... until I had to go. So I did a hard reset, because none of the applications responded. After half an hour I turned it on and the same thing happened again. What shall I do? How can I check what happened? (i.e. history of the system) Plus how can I check whether my OSX is instaled properly and I don't need to reinstal it. I adore this computer, but I shouldn't be afraid to launch photo booth.
P.S. I had to do a hard reset on my last wincomp after a month, not after a week. This certainly isn't what I call stable. Thank you for any suggestions.

Hi asheeshapple,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
If your MacBook Pro is not recognizing the iSight camera in FaceTime or Photo Booth I would recommend reading over and working through the troubleshooting steps in the Built-in iSight cameras section of the attached article. 
How to Troubleshoot iSight - Apple Support
Have a great day,
Joe

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