Facebook is now becoming one of the often used chatting platforms for all of us. In the previous period, Facebook only allowed users to text messages to each other, but some other social media platforms including Skype had video and audio calling options. After some time, the company is included the Skype with Facebook and enabled the video calls option to the Facebook platforms.

However, Facebook now changed its policies a lot, and you can make video calls within a few clicks. Apart from the Facebook chat screen, the company also includes a new app Standalone app called as Messenger, as well as the website.

Here check out following methods to set up Facebook video calling and easily connect with your friends on facebook via Video calls option.

Steps to Set Up Facebook Video Calling 

To set up the Facebook video calling, you can use both Facebook and Messenger to make a video call with your friends. And the option is almost available on both the platforms. Here are a few simple steps which can help you in setting up the Facebook video calling. Here how to do it:

1. Launch the Facebook.com on your web browser
2. Click to log in by entering your credentials.
3. After that, click on “Turn on Active Status” option to check if it is off or on mode.
4. Note: you can easily check your active friends, anyone you see with a green dot beside the name is currently available on Facebook.
5. Choose any of your friends, and the chat box is available at the bottom.
6. Click on the Video Camera icon.
7. A new page will pop up on your screen in which you have to allow the web camera and microphone usage access to the Facebook.
8. You can just hang up and finally close the window.

Alternatively, if you are using the Messenger app then use the following steps:

1. Launch the Messenger on your web browser.
2. Click to log in with your Facebook account.
3. Select your Contacts from the left side of the window.
4. Then, click on the Video chat icon located at the top right corner of the screen.
5. Now, a pop-up window will appear on your screen and start making your video calls with your friend, just similar to Facebook.
6. After that, you also need to provide hardware permissions.

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This error 1406 is mostly seen during installing a new program that uses the Windows Installer runtime. So Here we’re describing three methods to fix this error.

Method 1: By Modify Registry

This procedure suitable for those who’re well versed with registry editing, follow this steps

• Select Windows Flag Key + R from the keyboard.
• Write regedit and click Enter.
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software.
• Right-click to Software and press Permissions.
• Now press on Add.
• Type Everyone in the box and press on OK.
• Tap on Everyone under the usernames.
• In permissions sections, allow full control by clicking on Allow.
• Now find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software & HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Setup.
• If you find InstanceComponentSet, delete it.

Highly Recommended: Backup before applying this method.

Method 2: By Re-Register Windows Installer

In this procedure, you have to first unregister and then register Microsoft windows installer.

• Select Windows Flag + R from your keyboard.
• Write msiexec/unregserver and press Enter.
• You have to re-open RUN and write msiexec/regserver. Then press enter.

If this doesn’t work, try to reopen Command Prompt as Administrator and write these commands and hit enter for each commands.

Method 3: Install in Safe Mode

In case these two above methods are unable to fix error 1406, then attempt installation of Blue stacks or similar programs in safe mode. Users of Windows 7 or previous versions need to start in the safe mode. For booting into safe mode reboot the computer and hit F8 again and again.  Then you will notice some advanced options in black screen. Type Safe Mode next to the arrow button of keyboard and hit enter.

Users of Windows 8 or Upper version of windows, you have to start into safe mode by using different method.

I hope these methods will help your error 1406 while installing Bluestacks, MS Office or any other applications.

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