Microsoft added new ways for applications to access webcams with Microsoft’s new Windows Camera Frame Server with Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Problem is that Microsoft added some new ways to. applications to. use webcam. Microsoft decided that the Camera Frame. Server should only receive an uncompressed YUY2 encoding stream from the webcam, which is affecting far more devices than Microsoft expected, causing millions of cameras to crash. The hack is simple but follow the above steps correctly because a small mistake in The Registry Editor tool can render your system unstable.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/windows10-webcam-crash.html