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Disabling the webcam programmatically under Windows

Oct 12, 2011 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

Here are two links here on SO to enable/disable a device programmatically:

Win32 API function to programmatically enable/disable device

There is also an official tool, DevCon, that you could automate.

DevCon (Devcon.exe), the Device Console, is a command-line tool that displays detailed information about devices on computers running Windows. You can use DevCon to enable, disable, install, configure, and remove devices.