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 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 > necessary. Whatever driver is needed comes with the OS and is installed > automatically. > > Not so with any of three digital cameras purchased this year. Drivers that > work under Win2K aren't even available. To get the pictures from the camera > using the USB port on the camera, it must be connected to a WinXP machine, it > seems. Why are the camera manufacturers making it so hard? Is this part of > DRM? > > I can still get the pictures transferred from the camera to a Win2K machine > by removing the camera's "memory" card and putting it into a card reader that > is attached by USB to the Win2K machine, so the camera manufacturers are > merely inconveniencing me a bit, not really preventing me from doing it. The > inconvenience is that the card reader is not connected "permanently" to the > Win2K machine, so I have to fish it out of a drawer full of "stuff" when I > want to use it. Also, the card reader comes up as four different drives, for > the four different slots for different typed of cards on the card reader, and > the extra drives shown but not being used in MY Computer are sort of > nuisance/distraction. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
