This is via my laptop.

I've logged out and logged back in to Zoom multiple times. 

I've scheduled a half dozen different Zoom meetings - by simply clicking the icon - via my gmail calendar.

Every time it states that I "need to wait for my host" to start the meeting. 

I have a Windows laptop set up to run with its lid closed, using external monitors and an external keyboard.  It works just fine with all my other software.

Now, I'm running Zoom on this laptop (desktop client, Version: 5.15.6 (19959)), using an external webcam. 

That also works fine... but ONLY if the laptop has its lid open.

If the lid is closed, however, Zoom behaves very strangely.  I can still see my face, coming through the external webcam.  My colleague on the call can still see and hear me.  But if I click on Zoom (for instance, to mute my mic, or share my screen, or simply drag the window out of the way), it takes several seconds, sometimes longer, to respond--if it even responds at all.

I've closed Zoom and restarted, and updated my drivers, and rebooted the system.  No change.

(The only thing I can think of is that the built-in webcam on the laptop is only active when the lid is open.  But since I have the external webcam selected in Zoom, I don't know why that would make a difference.)

Help?

Is anyone else having issues with needing to re-register for Zoom meetings that you've already registered for?  After I register and a meeting is put into my calendar, I haven't been able to click on the Zoom link within the invite...I need to figure out some other way to log in. It will say I haven't registered yet. This has happened on 4 devices now (2 different Microsoft devices, Chromebook, Phone).

I have created a zoom meeting with registration, is there any way the approved participants join the meeting via the invite link (with passcode), rather than joining the meeting with the generated unique link sent by the email. 

As we are going to have some parallel sessions, we don't want the guest received many email or they will mixed up the links. 

For mobile devices, it will ask you to sign in and join the meeting successfully, but its not happening in Desktop version, it will go to the registration page even I have already registered.

I have had several meetings via zoom now where folks have already registered well in advance, they use the confirmation email they were sent by zoom after they registered, and then the day comes to join and they are sent to the registration page when they click "join meeting". The only workaround that I have found is for people to join on their phones, which doesn't work for everyone. 

We often conduct zoom meetings with numerous people outside the business. Registration is open a month in advance and a lot of people forgot to put it in their calendar. To avoid this, I create a calendar invite and import all the registered emails from the meeting report in zoom so as to remind them of the meeting in their calendar.

All registration links appear unique. I don't want to start a meeting where everyone is called "Elise" because I've shared my registration link! Is there a link to the meeting I can send with the invite that can be used by everyone?