[CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread Fred Holmes
A five-year-old digital camera, connected to a USB port on a Win2k Machine, just automatically comes up as an additional [hard/flash] drive, and the picture [.jpg] files can be copied using Windows drag and drop or copy/paste procedures, etc. No user-initiated driver installation of any sort is

Re: [CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread Tony B
Yes, I am ridiculously annoyed by those extra 4 drives as well, so I keep mine unplugged until it's needed. I'm also annoyed at Win2k so I haven't run it in years. Great in it's time, but no need for it now. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Fred Holmes f...@his.com wrote: A five-year-old digital

Re: [CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Dunford
Not so with any of three digital cameras purchased this year. Drivers that work under Win2K aren't even available. Many newer cameras have two connection modes. One of them makes the camera look to the PC like a disk and one makes it look like, well, a camera. So, check your cameras and see

Re: [CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread mike
It's probably used for transferring more data then the older cameras did. I always used a card reader anyway, because transferring directly from cam to computer always seemed to suck the batteries dry faster than anything else. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Fred that can be turned off and I do. (turn it off) Stewart At 10:34 PM 11/21/2009, you wrote: I'm ridiculously annoyed by WinXP. Among many annoyances is it's propensity to index everything. I think having everything indexed is a security vulnerability. If a 'bot is searching for

Re: [CGUYS] Digital camera connected to USB port

2009-11-21 Thread Fred Holmes
How does one access the dialog for turning off WinXP indexing? Where is it found? At 11:48 PM 11/21/2009, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: Fred that can be turned off and I do. (turn it off) Stewart At 10:34 PM 11/21/2009, you wrote: I'm ridiculously annoyed by WinXP. Among many annoyances is