Windows 10 again,now what?

I thought I'd try again to download pictures from a Canon camera in to the computer. I got a message saying something about Windows not recognizing the device hooked to the USB,unplug it and try again. I tried about half a dozen times.

Take a look here:
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/self-help-center/windows-compatibility/

Canon probably hasn't released the correct driver yet. But maybe something is available for a very similar product.

I don't speak computer,but from what I'm seeing,no Canon cameras are compatible with Windows 10 now. Great. It was bad enough when I only had to learn how to run it all over after the Windows 10 virus downloaded itself in to my computer. Now it's not even possible. I wish somebody would file a class action suit against those worthless maggots at MS. I've in on it in a heartbeat.
Apparently Canon didn't pay the ransom to them.
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I tried Windows 10 briefly, and I hated the way it handled photos. Even pulling them up from a flash drive or other storage. I basically hated everything about Windows 10.

You may or may not have seen my post a couple of weeks ago of how I solved the problem. I went to a pawn shop and bought an upgradable desktop unit that had had Vista on it originally, been switched to 7 Pro, and then updated to Windows 10. It had 4 gigs of ram on it, so I bought a new blank 1 Tig hard drive and a Windows 7 Pro installation disc. I replaced the hard drive in the unit and installed Windows 7 Pro. It's close to a month old and working great so far. Plus, the hard drive isn't cluttered up with all sorts of programs I'll never use. There is nothing on the hard drive that I didn't put there for a purpose. All for about $200.

I do have a computer I put together with used parts in my shop running Windows 10. Maybe if I play around with it long enough I may get used to 10. Then again, maybe not.

Okay, my turn to whine about Windows 10 for a minute.

My internet access is provided through Verizon's cellular network. There isn't any cable or ISDN out in this area. My land line is so full of static, it won't even possibly support dial-up. My son, who lives next door, has tried multiple satellite providers and had a fiasco with each of them. Verizon's service isn't very reliable, but it's the best I can get at this time.

I have Verizon's highest offering for a fixed price for a certain amount of data transfer. I get 10 gigabytes of data for $70.00 per month, plus various taxes and fees. Microsoft pushed Windows 10 down a little over a month ago. They forced me way over the 10 gig limit so I had to pay $210.00 for my monthly service last month. Then, this month, they have pushed down so many patches to Windows 10, I have used more than half of my monthly allocation within the first 5 days of the current cycle.

Their "free" download is costing me a fortune.

Tom in TN

Apparently if they don't want you to run something,they change it with their updates so you can't. My photos used to come up,I just didn't have time to learn how to download them. It downloaded updates about a week ago,and now I can't open Google Chrome anymore either. I did a search for that problem and came to a forum where others had the same issue at about the same time.

rr,similar problem. Samsung camera 3 yrs. old. Free software from Samsung sorted it out. HTH

Well,I got the picture. The wife downloaded it in to her Google Chromebook laptop and email it to me.

Same kinda deal here. A couple of years ago I bought a "Smart Hub", wifi, works in the shop 50' away. 2 gigs for $50 per. mo. Fine, until we kept getting videos of the grandkids. Still no biggy - $10 - $15 extra per mo. THEN the FREE Win 10 download -$150 ! I am getting (from the same provider), not any real choices, a new 'Hub' that is 50 Gigs for $65 per mo. Might even get in a few Netflix items. Ain't technology grand ? ;^)

(quoted from post at 14:10:17 10/07/16) I thought I'd try again to download pictures from a Canon camera in to the computer. I got a message saying something about Windows not recognizing the device hooked to the USB,unplug it and try again. I tried about half a dozen times.

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Go back to windows 7 where everything works? just a thought!

It cost Canon nothing, except the time, to publish a proper driver. That's a common thing with ALL OS versions, not just MS. Drivers properly interface the driven device with the hardware and OS. Everything I have, printers(2), Cameras (5) etc all work with Win10, Win7, and XP. Of course anything Apple won't work with any non-Apple thing.

It did work when that virus first got dumped on me. According to that site,Canon cameras will work with Win 7,8 and 8.1,but none will work now with Win 10. The fact that it did work and won't now says to me that MS changed something.

I have Windows 10 and also a Canon camera. I haven't had any compatibility problem with them.

I don't understand the problem. I never hook my camera to the computer, I take the card out of the camera and plug it into a card reader. The reader cost me 5 bucks at Wal Mart. Worked on Vista, windows 7 and now on windows 10. It goes about it a different way and with the new upgrade a week or so ago, it changed a little again but it always works. I just copied and pasted one particular photo I wanted to keep from my trail camera and that worked also. I don't like it as well as on 7 but always able to save what ever pictures I want.

Yes, MS changed something. The way as OS build and release works is that a working OS is released only to chosen beta test customers and makers of computer attached equipment. this usually happens at least 18 months before the OS is released for retail sale, and public usage.

It is the equipment makers (HP, Canon, Brother, Western Digital, etc, etc, etc) responsibility to create and release drivers to support their(and their customer's) equipment.

the point I was making in my first post is that every Maker of equipment that I have did support my stuff. My HP printers, Pentax and Olympus cameras etc. If they didn't, I wouldn't blame MS. Apparently your camera maker didn't wish to spend the manhours to make the installed base work with the latest OS.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily defending MS, it's just that they are not the real culprit here.

I have 10 on two laptops and one tower system.

Once I found a way to get my games back, I'm happy.

I wonder how all the UNIX variants out there handle this issue???

(quoted from post at 16:53:37 10/07/16) I don't understand the problem. I never hook my camera to the computer, I take the card out of the camera and plug it into a card reader. The reader cost me 5 bucks at Wal Mart. Worked on Vista, windows 7 and now on windows 10. It goes about it a different way and with the new upgrade a week or so ago, it changed a little again but it always works. I just copied and pasted one particular photo I wanted to keep from my trail camera and that worked also. I don't like it as well as on 7 but always able to save what ever pictures I want.

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I do the same thing. I had an almost new laptop with windows 8. In a fit of weakness I downloaded 10 awhile back. Seemed OK. Then came a whole bunch of driver updates a few weeks back. They took forever and a day to download. I have rebooted several times, and the updates say they are still trying to download. Finally finished and the computer is now slow as molasses.

I may try the idea of re habbing my old desktop that had Vista on it like someone suggested with windows 7 Pro.

Gene

ahh so glad I said no to the 10 upgrade . not a fan of 8.1 but this will likely be my last windows laptop. Time to save my scoobies and get an apple.

Have you tried in the last week or so?

Get an SD card reader.

ken combs,
Have your (or MS) ever heard of "backward compatibility? :lol:
I have W7 on all my regularly used computers at home (5 at last count). I've still got one with XP and I think one with W2K, but the XP is just a server and the W2k hasn't been turned on in a while.

Our last laptop upgrade at work went from W7 to W10 and I hate the OS. Subsequently, I only use Outlook, Skype, Chrome and our internal file structure (.svn) on it.

I hate Edge, the popup Start Menu list and anything else W10 has offered in the new "look and feel". Everyday, my multiple monitors flash off for a few seconds in the middle of doing something. Numerous times per day. Happens to everyone in the office (20-30 people) and you know when it happens because you hear the "argghs" and groans across the cubicle walls. Also get the Microsoft Update is Available popup in the middle of doing work, have to ESC out, get the next Update screen and close it. Wasted time. (Need to get with IT to disable that).

We have several company Apps that used to work fine with previous versions of Windows that don't work with W10. To the point that we have a Server that I have to Remote Connect to and run a virtual desktop on it for those apps.

For the life of me, I can't understand why MS makes these "leaps and bounds" changes to user interfaces that make no sense to the average user when the old way of doing things was fine and efficient. End of rant.

Sad ain't it,when a free "upgrade" causes you to have to take a long trip to buy something to make it work?