Come laugh at me.

So I am in no way a camera kind of person, I just bought a canon powershoot s3 is, the thing works great and all but I can't load them onto my pc, I put the cd that came with it in and installed everything to no avail. I searched the canon site and tried to download the WIA driver as I am on windows xp..nothing has worked.

Can someone please help my desperate soul out?

Laughs are allowed.

Save yourself a lot of heartaches and battery power, and get a card reader.

JustShootin wrote in post #2608872
=JustShootin';2608872]​Save yourself a lot of heartaches and battery power, and get a card reader.

whats that? I dont want to spend money when I can do it for free after getting this resolved.

This might help, its what I do.

Step 1. Turn your Powershot S3 on.

Step 2. Get the USB cable that hooks up the S3 to your computer, plug it in to your camera and the computer.

Step 3. Go to my computer.

Step 4. Find your camera and double click it ( Should be below Devices with removable storage.

Step 5. On the left click "Get pictures from camera"

Step 6. Click next until you see some of your photos.

Step 7. Check the ones you want to go on your pc.

Step 8. Click next and browse where you want those photos to go.

Step 9. Press next again and then finish.

Step 10. A folder should pop up with your pictures in it.

Good luck

stuntin wrote in post #2608878
whats that? I dont want to spend money when I can do it for free after getting this resolved.

I just checked for the first time since i got my S2, which about 18 months ago, and all I did was plug the USB cord into the camera, and into the computer, went to "my computer", and there it was. I never installed the software that came with the camera. With XP, these things are usally automatic.

A for the card reader, they can be purchased for 20 or 25 bucks. Then you can just insert the card into it, and do as you please with your pictures. It's much more convenient that downloading from the camera. At least in my opinion, it is.

Edit: But Zohar's instructions (above) should work for you.

I went to my pc and the camera does not show up?

Yeah Card Readers are VERY useful if you think about it.
Camera =350$
Card Reader=20-25$ (Info gotten from JustShootin')
Memory Card= 30$

If you get a surge you will loose some pictures and about 50-55$.

Without the reader you will loose 370$

Stuntin, did you turn the camera on and go to view pictures or something?

yeah camera was on but theres no camera icon under my computer.

stuntin wrote in post #2609014
yeah camera was on but theres no camera icon under my computer.

You might have to add the device manually. Installing the software from the CD should allow the computer to recognize the camera though. Have you restarted the machine and tried it?

Yeah restarting might help also does your computer have USB 2.0? Because I think the USB the camera comes with is 2.0. Also if you have Photoshop you can go to File and import from camera. That might work?

well, with XP, when you plug the device in, it should recognize the device right away and XP sometimes will install some type of drivers to get you to point that you can read your camera's card like a drive. Really, it shouldn't be that hard.
Maybe reboot pc, try a different USB port, camera is on with charged batt, shut off any applications running on pc's desktop and see what happens

Last resort is getting a memory card reader, but there shouldn't be an issue to get camera to be recognized.

none of this is working! I geuss I will get a card reader.

stuntin wrote in post #2609089
none of this is working! I geuss I will get a card reader.

One possibility is that the camera usb cord is bad . Do you know anyone with a Canon camera? Gerry

well its wierd, I had a canon eos digital rebel and ran it fine on this computer.*it was stolen