

Then locate the device in Device Manager using this name.Ĥ) Click Browse my Computer for driver software.Ħ) Click Browse to find the location of the downloaded driver file. In Driver Easy, you can click on the driver and get the name of current driver. Note: For some devices, the device name displayed in Driver Easy is different from the device name displayed in Device Manager. Then right-click the device name and select Update Driver Software… This is to expand the list of the this device.įor instance, if you wish to update “Realtek High Definition Audio” driver, double-click “Sound, video and game controller” branch then you’ll see the “High Definition Audio Device” under this branch. This is to open Device Manager.ģ) Double click the device name that you wish to update the driver for. Follow these steps.ġ) On your desktop, press and hold the Start button and right-click Computer then c lick Manage. You can update the drivers manually via Deivce Manager. Windows 7 instantly recognized the device and I had no problem whatsoever copying my images over.There are two ways you can update the drivers in Windows 7: manually & automatically just select the way you prefer. While this sounds illogical, it works like a charm. How mistaken I had been! The very first hit pointed to the forums at vista圆4.com, where a very simple solution was offered:Ĭhange the camera’s USB connection mode from “PC” to “Print/PTP”. With my hopes down, I turned to Google as a last resort, not expecting much. I went to Canon’s driver site again only to find that they do not have a single 64-bit driver! Where are those guys living, or better: when? Last millenium? Then it struck me: I am using the 64-bit version of Windows 7. Thinking I could still outsmart the thing I activated the Vista compatibility mode for the installer, but still no luck.

Downloaded it, ran the installer, but it reported it did not support my Windows version. Then I visited Canon’s German driver site, found no driver for Windows 7 (who would have thought otherwise, by now?) but decided to try my luck with the Vista driver. So I waited while Windows 7 contacted Windows Updated, only to report that no driver was available. No, you have to install a driver from Canon. I still knew that the EOS 350D does not present its data via a simple Windows drive letter (that would probably be too easy).

OK, second try: connect the camera via USB (luckily it has a standard micro USB socket). I remembered that Canon sticks to the compact flash format for some reason, for which no laptop know to man has a built-in reader.

My instinctive action (remove the memory card and insert it into the laptop’s card reader) did not work. After neglecting my good old Canon EOS 350D for some time, I took some pictures with it yesterday, which I wanted to transfer to my laptop, of course.
