Picture Download trouble

[mauro_lustosa]

My Dell pentium4 doesn't recognize my A-75 camera anymore. I tried everything: camera window, wia 6.2.5, using zoombrowser... nothing does it. It used to work when it was just microsoft camera wizard, but I guess since I started using canon software it always says either the camera is empty (when I try through zoombrowser) or that the camera is in use. And I never plug the scanner at the same time. I also get sometimes a blank list of softwares to open my camera pictures with, what does that mean?

Is camerawindow a software on it's own or just a pluggin? Everytime I run it, all I can see is the camera Icon on the taskbar. Please help, this is one of those issues that won't be taken care of neither by canon nor dell:( . I was able to fix it once, but then it came back by itself, without having anything new installed.

[Charbull]

Unfortunately I am having the same problem on my Dell Inspiron Laptop. I have tried MANY solutions save calling Canon or Dell. One more interesting hicup I have run into: there resides deep in my Windows XP operating system a Camera Window program that fails to uninstall.

I believe it is corrupt because when I hit remove program the install shield runs but the progress bar quickly gets halfway then dissapears alltogether and leaves me staring at the add\remove program list with the broken camera window program still there. Mind you I can install another "proper" camera window program and it will show up beside it's broken brother on the list and I have no problem uninstalling that.
Get this: I even went into the registry and deleted every key that had to do with canon or the camera window (not to mention a regular file search and delete), and it's presence still remains in the list of add\remove programs. A stubborn little thing.
Must I format my hard drive?! lol.
Just to reiterate our problem: Blank event screen when plugging in the camera. booooooo.
Cheers guys and gals, happy new year.

[Bodryn]

I think your laptop computers should have a PCMCIA slot in them (mine does); you can buy a CF card adapter that slips in that slot and acts just like another hard drive. So all you have to do is slip the CF card from your Canon into the CF card adapter, then slip that into the computer slot and then drag and drop the files directly onto your computer. You don't even need Canon software to do that. (Some people call the PCMCIA slot the PC card slot) It's simple and straightforward and doesn't require your camera to be connected, thus saving your camera battery.

I do this all the time except that mostly I use my desktop and a USB port card reader which works exactly the same way as above. I've taken over 8000 Canon digital photos and have yet to connect my camera to the computer - I just think it's too slow and too awkward to mess with.