YouCam not Working

I purhased a refurbished TS Notebook PC this past December. It runs windows 8. I've recently come across an annoying problem, but I underatand it's pretty common.
Some times, youcam opens without a problem. Then I take a picture, and it gets caught in an infinite processing loop. It's been doing this consistently for a day.
Someone please tell me where to find a patch or something for this.
Thanks.

Hi D ,
You can thry to reinstall Youcam from "Recovery manager" , left upper icon (reinstal driver and software).
If the issue persist , please , install
http://manycam.com/
it is free , light , and if is all OK with webcam , you should have no problem.
All the best!!!
Dindin
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