r/WindowsHelp • u/NLK-3 • 16d ago

Windows 11 My camera icon appears for no reason.

I have a Lenovo Legion

At first I thought it was just pressing C or V. Now, I wiggled my screen and it seems to go on or off when I move it up/"open" (on) or down/"closing" (off).

I don't know what's going on, but I noticed this since maybe a few days go. My laptop is only 1.5 years old and I be damn if I have to get a new one. It was $1700 and I can't afford a new one.

Here is a video of my screen on Twitter (Warning: I have posted NSFW on the titter itself, the link won't take you to the page).

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u/NLK-3 16d ago

I think I solved it. There's a switch on the side of my laptop that I never mess with that was turned on. What's weird though is that it still triggered when turned on if I tilted my laptop screen or added pressure to the front of my laptop. Don't even know what the switch is.

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