No Camera Icon AT ALL, ANYWHERE

[Martin Spanswick]

Thanks for your reply Yves Alarie.
Sadly it is not listed in devices with removable storage
either. The only place it is listed is in "Device
Manager" under image devices along with my scanner and web
cam. These two are listed under Scanners and Cameras and
my canon camera use to be listed there. But not any more.
I half knew that bigblackglass fix would not work but
tried out of desperation. Ta anyway.

Does anyone else have any other ideas. The fault is as
follows:

When I connect my Canon Powershot A20 to my puter the

 

[Yves Alarie]

Well, it has to be listed somewhere.
You connect your camera and a window opens for you to transfer the photos
from your camera. This works. Obviously XP recognized your camera.
Look at the top of this opening window (blue bar).
Something is written there indicating your camera and drive letter assigned
to it. Mine looks like this.
Sony Memory Stick (H
Open My Computer, look at the menu on the left. The top will be System
Tasks. Change the Tasks view to Folder view by clicking the yellow icon
Folders on the top bar. Look there under My Computer to see if you can
locate you camera. You can then right click on it for Properties.