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HeyBub[_2_]

wrote:

On the WinXP and WinVista newsgroups there is universal ragging
about the unbelievably crappy software that comes with
Hewlitt-Packard cameras (and just about everything else HP sells),
principally the incompatibility their software has with the
operating system and other functions.

If getting your pictures OUT of your camera and INTO the computer is
important, bear in mind that you may have problems attempting to use
HP software to do it.

Not needed. Connect you camera via USB to the PC and WinXP will
automagically find it and treat it just like it's another hard drive.
Drag the files from the card in the camera to your hard drive. I would
never install any crapware that comes free with a camera.

Agreed. The SD card can be treated as an extra drive and things work quite
well. It's when you try to hook up the camera directly to the computer that
the camera maker's software comes into play.

Plus, HP (for one) tries to bundle in all sorts of crapware to
crop/adjust/color/copy/print/hose down with turtle repellant that the
uninitiated may be encouraged to load on the computer (to his detriment).

The consensus is that Canon's software isn't bad at all.