Digital Camera - really weird problem

I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows search
for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original disk
work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
can manage it, why not Cannon?

However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before I
installed SP1

Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!

Alan

Try forcing the system to look in your Windows folder for the driver.
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Paul


"alanrco" wrote:

> I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
> 64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
> night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows search
> for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
> Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original disk
> work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
> can manage it, why not Cannon?
>
> However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before I
> installed SP1
>
> Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
>
> Alan
>
>

Did you check the Canon website for an updated driver?

"alanrco" <> wrote:

>I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
>64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
>night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows search
>for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
>Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original disk
>work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
>can manage it, why not Cannon?
>
>However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before I
>installed SP1
>
>Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
>
>Alan

"PaulB" <> wrote in message
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> Try forcing the system to look in your Windows folder for the driver.
> --
> Paul
>
>

Yes, already tried that, didn't work :-(

> "alanrco" wrote:
>
>> I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in
>> Vista
>> 64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
>> night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows
>> search
>> for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
>> Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original
>> disk
>> work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
>> can manage it, why not Cannon?
>>
>> However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before
>> I
>> installed SP1
>>
>> Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>

"Stevey" <> wrote in message
news...
> Did you check the Canon website for an updated driver?
>

As I already mentioned in my first post, see below

Alan


> "alanrco" <> wrote:
>
>>I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
>>64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
>>night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows
>>search
>>for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
>>Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original
>>disk
>>work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
>>can manage it, why not Cannon?
>>
>>However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before
>>I
>>installed SP1
>>
>>Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
>>
>>Alan

Is there a rollback option under camera driver in the Device manager?
--
Paul


"alanrco" wrote:

>
> "Stevey" <> wrote in message
> news...
> > Did you check the Canon website for an updated driver?
> >
>
> As I already mentioned in my first post, see below
>
> Alan
>
>
> > "alanrco" <> wrote:
> >
> >>I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
> >>64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
> >>night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows
> >>search
> >>for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
> >>Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original
> >>disk
> >>work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera. Epson
> >>can manage it, why not Cannon?
> >>
> >>However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before
> >>I
> >>installed SP1
> >>
> >>Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
> >>
> >>Alan
>
>

Right, Canon left me out in the cold as well....

The card reader should work fine, though - I used that for my old G2. =\

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"alanrco" <> wrote in message
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>I have a Cannon Powershot A40 camera. UJust used the basic driver in Vista
>64 bit to upload the pictures. I use Paint Shop Pro to work on them. Last
>night I installed SP1 and guess what/ Yup, can't use camera, Windows search
>for driver failed and Cannon website has no support for this camera for
>Vista says it's too old. What!!! nor would the driver from the original
>disk work. I've got a Epson Colour printer that's older than the camera.
>Epson can manage it, why not Cannon?
>
> However this is strange considering that Vista 64 bit had a driver before
> I installed SP1
>
> Now I've got to fork out for a card reader. arghhh!
>
> Alan