PowerShot S300 DIGITAL ELPH driver for W7  

Official drivers support for PowerShot S300 DIGITAL ELPH ends, as I understand, with Windows XP. Windows 7 usually should find and install drivers for USB gadgets automatically. Fails.... On Canon site they philosophically say that I should use memory card adapter.
Old XP driver uder Windows 7 - fails...
UBUNTU 10.10 works with camera images smooth.
Does anybody here can propose more lightweight solution for Windows 7?

Thank you, pooch, it was bright idea, but it didn't work. XP-driver is, of course, 32-bit one. I set up xp-compatibility mode, installed it, but, alas, the system didn't like it. And I will never change my childish 64-bit system dream for 32 bits... Instead I installed the latest UBUNTU version, where there are no problems with this driver. I think, it is deliberate policy of software and hardware manufacturers - to push the consumer to purchase new gadgets. Actually, so it happened. I have a new camera, no problems with drivers. Just it was a pity to part with the old one - it is fully operational.

You might be able to get it working with Windows 7 by changing a communications setting on your camera. My old Canon G3 wouldn't work with Windows 7 until I changed the communications setting from "Normal" to "PTP". On my camera the "Normal" setting used a TWAIN driver which is not supported by Win 7. The "PTP" setting made the camera look like a USB flashdrive to Win 7 and all was well.

I would look at my USB settings if I were you...

WiFi Ed said:

You might be able to get it working with Windows 7 by changing a communications setting on your camera.

I would look at my USB settings if I were you...

Thank you, Ed... But my camera has not any communication settings .

I haven't come across a camera yet that doesn't work in Windows 7 simply by plugging it in. Have you tried that, and then run Windows Update with the camera connected?

Aside from that, a card reader is typically about $10, and well worth it, since you don't chew up the camera's batteries.

DeaconFrost said:

I haven't come across a camera yet that doesn't work in Windows 7 simply by plugging it in. Have you tried that, and then run Windows Update with the camera connected?

I tried to update driver through the Computer Management utility. It could not find acceptable one. As a rule, you are right: when new USB facility is connected, the driver is fetched and installed automatically. For example, such was the procedure with my Logitech C310 camera. Because it was new. New gadgets are respected.

Aside from that, a card reader is typically about $10, and well worth it, since you don't chew up the camera's batteries.

Yes, I agree, but I decided to rely upon UBUNTU. Very pleasant and cute system. Maybe the time will come and I will switch to it completeley. There are no problems at all with this drivers' affair... Recomend! At least, make acquaintance with it! :)

pooch said:

… I hate the colour scheme of the new Ubuntu,

Agreed... I cannot understand a "strange" taste of some people... Sometimes they present their text in dark red, or dark blue on the black background. I am far not Windows fan, but in my opinion, their color schemes, ergonomics is excellent. Take, for example, MS Office and compare it with some Winamp skins created by enthusiasts. Nightmare!

... But the problem this time is down to the manufacturers not releasing drivers not Windows

I think all these people have some secret agreement stimulating the activity on consumption market. Gadgets should be subjected to moral ageing: neither manufacturers, nor OS developers support hardware after some, rather short time period. So you go and buy the new model. That was so when I switched to W7 after W XP. I could not find a driver for my old normally working ethernet adapter. Of course, I went to the shop and bought the new one. That is life in capitalistic paradise. We did not create a paradise here in Ukraine, but all the drawbacks of capitalism - are here, alive and flourishing .