It was working just fine, can't be any better. It runs smoothly in windows 10, but have a problem pop up just now. In 'Search Windows' ( just to the right of START icon on the bottom bar ) enter Camera.Recently I bought a similar microscope, using the software coolingtech 2.0. The app can be accessed on a Windows 10 computer as follows-Ĭonnect the USB microscope to the computer as usual. I found a simple answer on the Microsoft help website - Windows 10 has a dedicated camera app and this worked for me. I tried the work-arounds mentioned previously on this forum with no success. When I updated the Windows 7 computer to Windows 10 with the free update the microscope failed to work ( still OK on the XP computer) I too had problems with a USB microscope previously running perfectly on 2 computers I have - one running XP and the other running Windows 7 How to use USB Microscope previously OK on PC with Windows XP, 7, 8 but not working on a PC running Windows 10 ( say after update) since the board is all SMD I am sure it was re-flowed but the quality of the solder was very poor. Looks bad indeed, like perhaps some 7 year old kid with a rusty nail and a torch did the soldering. Now that I have the scope working, I took photo's of the very poor quality of soldering done on the board. For example I just got an Orange Pi from a seller, and it never has worked. I purchased mine because I have a lot of trouble of late with junk boards from China. Heck maybe it isn't all that cheap after all, however I have seen them going for 50 to 100 bucks in different sites so i must be a rather open question of the value. Probably why it was going cheap on that auction site. Sad to, the box indicates there is a Windows 10 driver for it, or at least there is a box that the maker can check that says Windows 8 and 10, however the box for Windows 7 and below was checked on mine. I guess a fellow will have to use a combination of software to do everything I want to do with it. The driver disk says it is for Windows 7 down, but most of the software does function, except it cannot take the pictures. I just purchased mine from for 11 bucks plus 12 shipping new in the box. I found that the IP camera allows me to do a lot with my microscope, however smartcamera.exe allows me to take photo's with it, and that was what I needed.

Cooltech microscope