i had a friend who upgraded to 10, he said he couldn't get photos off his camera to pc, i went to his house and pointed out to him there were no photos on his camera :)
Probably the best way to get pictures off the camera is to remove the memory card and plug it into a card reader. Some laptops have SD card readers in them. If you have a mini SD card it should have come with an adaptor to plug it into a SD reader.
If the computer has no reader you can get external reader that connects via a USB lead for +/- $30. You use that like an external disk drive or a memory stick (USB key.) You simply copy the required pictures across from the folder in the card to the folder you require on your computer. I have used this method for years as I could transfer things quicker than direct from the camera. You also have more control doing that as well.
You may be able to get an updated program for your camera to load on your computer. Often the older programs do not run on a new system so you have to update.
On the other hand, if you had described what is going on we would have had some idea of what is going wrong. We need to know camera type, program used to do the downloads and such things.
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Because the underlying operating system has not changed since Windows Vista back in 2006, it is most likely an issue with an old driver.
Think of a driver as an interpreter. The hardware maker of the camera used their own computer language and Microsoft used their own language (like French & German) and they need an interpreter to talk to each other. The driver lets windows talk to the camera, the same as when you bought a printer and had to install the driver off the CD to get it to work.
Sometimes drivers they are badly written and do not follow Microsoft standards and become incompatible with a Windows update or a migration to a new Windows. (lazy third party hardware providers to the company that made your PC is usually to blame).
Sometimes 3rd part drivers simply get c0cked up and sometimes we need to reinstall them or download a new one. Microsoft have been asking major hardware vendors for almost a decade now, to supply their drivers to Microsoft so that they can be made available on the Windows Update system.
Before we start, close all open programs.
Take your time, here is the steps.
>Using the right mouse button, right click the start icon in the bottom left corner. From the pop-up menu choose "Device Manager"
>In the Device Manager window that opens scroll down to 'Imaging..." Here is where your cameras and scanners etc are listed. You will probably see an exclamation mark or other such warning symbol next to your camera.
>Right click the camera and choose "Uninstall" Confirm by clicking OK This should remove the hardware device (camera) from the list.
>Leave the Device Manager window open.
>Now make sure you are connected to the Internet. We are going to ask Windows to look for new hardware and when it finds your camera we are going to ask it to use Windows update to find the latest software driver for it.
>When you have an Internet connection, left click the name of your PC to highlight it, which is found at the top of the Device Manager list.
>From the Action menu in Device Manager choose 'Scan for hardware changes'.
When your PC finds the camera it will try to re-install it automatically by using the existing software already on your hard drive. If it works you will find your camera listed normally under 'Imaging' without the exclamation mark. If the software already on your PC is not suitable it will ask you if it can down load the software. Choose from "Windows Update".
If device manager simply reinstalls the software driver already on your hard drive and c0cks it up again, you can >'Right Click' the camera in Device Manager and choose "Update driver software..." and then choose 'Windows Update' for it to go and look for the latest software driver.
You sound like a twenty something geeko , what did you do before being a nomad , not too many nomads have your tech savvy
Most in fact struggle to switch things on , I have used computers over the last twenty years and struggle still .
I'll keep your email on tap in case I get a tech issue with my laptop , you could work your way round oz helping nomads out with
issues just like this LOL
With 5 years to go until fulltime retirement swimbo and I have discussed at length what we could do to supplement our retirement incomes. She, a 40 year emergency nurse could apply for her practitioners licence, and I could get some signwriting on the tug and one of those spare wheel covers that says 'IT Geek, retired but still working'. The problem is, without the continued expediture on keeping my skills up to date I would be next to useless in about 5 years.
40 years of designing electronic circuits and working with computers since the early eighties gives one a second nature skillset for these things. Always being at the cutting edge it has only been small incremental changes for me, but for the average user who resists change and keeps their gear way past its expected lifespan, often leapfrogging multiple windows versions at a time, each new device brings more bewildering processes to master. And it does get harder as you get older, but you know what they say, "Use it or lose it".
I still run my own business fixing Computer Problems and I have often found that when one is asked during happy hour "what do you do for a crust?" I am often reluctant to tell the truth because when I say what I do, then it becomes like a free for all. Everyone starts pumping me for specific info on this problem and that problem they have, and can I possibly have a look at their computing device if they run back to their van and get it now because perhaps I might be able to fix this and that before they head off on their continuing journey tomorrow. Unfortunately, no-one wants to pay for that support. They all want free help, and they want it now!, whilst I'm two glasses into a nice bottle of shiraz around a camp fire.
So I usually say politely that whilst I'm on holidays I'm happy to give out some basic general advice for free around the camp fire but actual fixing will have to wait until tomorrow and wont be for free.
Our industry has a going rate of about $250+ per hour but when I say I'll only charge them $100 they baulk at the price. Like a doctor, to be really good at my job I have to maintain a constant lifetime of learning. Books, journals, industry seminars, microsoft boot camps etc. I spend approx $10,000 a year on self learning and in our industry that knowledge has a half life currency of approx 18months to 2 years. Not being elitist or classist, but no one does what I do without an IQ of at least 140 or higher (this is why many IT folks have trouble fitting in). This is not a basic blue collar trade where you drop out of school at 15, do a 4 year apprenticeship and then hang out a shingle. Most folks will happily pay out a plumber $250 for him to spend 5 minutes with a rooter to unblock your toilet and another 10 minutes washing it down, or $60 for a 5 minute short consult with their west asian import (thank you very much, come again) GP, but they want to offer me a $5 bottle of red as compensation for an hours work.
I like the red but it doesn't pay the bills, fill the tank, or buy the groceries.
What do most GNs here think? What would you pay for IT support whilst doing the lap?
Hi Hylife in device manager and in Imaging there is no camera only my printer snap
Cameras should show up under imaging. If you don't see it listed under some other Device Manager heading. this means that the cameras hardware is either faulty (95%) or has been disabled in the BIOS (5%).
If you haven't been messing with the BIOS settings (hardware config accessed before windows boots up) then I would say the onboard camera is toast.
If windows can't even see the camera/device, you can be sure that it is hardware problem. If the device is found but not recognised properly then that is a software (driver) problem.
Yes I had an IT guy who is a paid employee (not self employed) come to my office last week and sorted out a few problems we were having with computers.
He was at our office for two hours and the bill from the company that he worked for was $165.00 including GST.
So, if we take the governments grab from the account it amounts to $150.00 for the two hours.
Now included in that money was the time for him to drive to and from his workplace and the vehicle costs as well.
This equates to a price that is well below $250.00 per hour.
It was kind of Hylife to offer all of that information to the OP and to the rest of us for free.
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