Canon PowerShot G3 driver and Windows 2000

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From: Paul Mison
Subject: Canon PowerShot G3 driver and Windows 2000
Date: 15:29 on 11 Aug 2003
Download PowerShot G3 driver from canon.co.uk.

Double-click Setup.exe. Watch installer remove then reinstall TWAIN driver.

Connect camera to computer. Watch Windows display 'New Hardware 
Detected' dialog. Wonder why the installer hasn't stopped this 
happening.

Allow installer to run through once. No driver detected.

Unplug and replug camera. Watch same 'New Hardware' wizard spring to 
life. Point it manually at the G3.INF file hidden in 
c:\mydocu~1\admini~2\common\, where WinZip's self-extractor has been 
persuaded to shit it (unlike, say, c:\temp, like it did last time). 
Watch as Windows searches all the places it searched last time, again 
in vain, then as it finds the .INF file it was pointed at and ignore 
it.

Reboot, hoping something will be triggered. No effect.

Scream at camera, impugn Windows loudly to the developer's corner of 
the office, and give up, hoping someone who cares will make it work.

-- 
:: paul  mison
:: fotango.com

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