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[PhotosByEric]

I currently use elements 5 and LR on a Windows XP machine. I also have an Epson printer with built in card reader. Before getting PSE 5 I had PSE 4 which I left on the machine just in case. The other day I was going through and deleting programs I never use anymore, PSE 4 was one of them.

This is where my problem came in. I used to just put my cf card in the reader and the PSE 5 downloader would automatically pop up and start dl. Now it does nothing. If I go into elements and search for the reader I get a list that just says generic device, which should be the Epson, but it does nothing. If I manually click import it opens the scanner window as if I'm using the Epson to scan vs uploading from the card reader.

So I dug out my Sandisk card reader popped in the cf card. Still no auto dl. Open PSE 5 and it shows the generic device again but now it works.

Obviously I had some kind of setting clicked in PSE 4 that was associated with dowloading into PSE 5, but what I don't know.

I've tried looking in both the PSE 5 and Epson control screens but nothing I change gets the Epson reader to work, preferebly automatically.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Eric

[PixelMagic]

You can try doing a repair installation of PSE 5. Go to Start > Control Panel >Add or Remove Programs and select Elements 5 from the list of software. Click the Change/Remove button and you will see an option to repair the software installation.

Failing that, you can used an advanced tool like Tweak UI to create your own Autoplay Event Handlers.