Satellite Pro U500 - download to activate the built in webcam?

apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I'm a new user here.
can anyone direct me to a link to the download to activate the built in webcam on my satellite pro u500 please?
thanks all in advance
marchamjack

Hi and welcome to Toshiba support forum.
At first tell us please which Satellite Pro do you have exactly.
Which operating system do you use?
What is wrong with webcam?
Every notebook model is delivered with preinstalled OS and webcam should work properly.
I presume you should have Win7 64bit, right?

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