Windows ME was the worst of all the Windows that has ever been putout.

If you know someone who have Windows XP you might try connecting the
camea to that is see how it does.

I had a camera that just would not connect no matter what I did, it
turned out is was simply a bad USB cable, not likely but workth looking
at.

Scott

Hi Dinah,

I'm new to alt.photography, but old to Usenet, and don't know what the
generally accepted rule is on this group as to top or bottom posting, but
will chance a "When in Rome" and since the thread is going top post so far,
I'll follow suit. Since I'm one of them geeky diehard Linux users, your post
got me to wondering if my Kodak Easy Share DX-6490 and Printer Dock worked
with my WinME setup, so I booted into Windows this morning for the first
time since I had just installed the software and shut it down and got out of
that Windows environment. I'd never tried any of the Kodak Easy Share
Software so didn't know if it worked or not. But anyway, all that said, I'll
see if I can get down to the business at hand. ;-)

It sounds like we may have similar setups, with the exception of my camera
being the DX-6490, and the possibility that you have simply the dock 6000
without the printer since there seems to be two versions for the 7000 series
cameras. As far as I know, from past experience with Kodak EasyShare
software and previous Kodak cameras and docks I've used, the procedures are
about the same across the board.

But anyway, I seem to have no problem with e-mailing with the camera
attached directly to the usb, sitting in the dock, or by using a Lexar
3-in-one card reader and the SD/MMC card removed from the card and inserted
in the reader. If I use the cameras built in tag for e-mail feature and have
my addresses sent to the camera by way of the EasyShare's facility for doing
that, then just attaching the camera brings up the software for either
editing or including a message, etc.

Also once the photos are transferred from camera to computer, I may use the
Windows Explorer (My Computer) to just right click on a photo and e-mail it.
Of course this does not utilize the EasyShare Automatic rescale best suited
for e-mail and unless you have rar, zip or other compression utility on your
computer you will not have the ability to compress an original size photo
and may need to use a photo editor to re-scale to a suitable size.

Possibly you might un-install your EasyShare Software and then carefully
read the installation instructions in the manual, and not, do not have the
camera connected to the computer during the software installation. Do the
install and any necessary reboots it may ask for and then once it is
installed, connect the camera or connect the dock as per instructions and
then WinME will detect it and install the necessary drivers.  Once that is
completed, I see no reason it should not work in all areas.

Note here!!! With mine, when I use the dock, the camera is inserted with the
mode switch in the off position and left off and print or transfer
facilities are handled by the controls on the dock. When connecting with
just a USB cable, the instructions say to have the camera off when
connecting the cable and then turn it on once connected and then when the
computer detects the camera and loads the EasyShare software, the transfers,
printing or e-mailing is done from within the software.

The system works, and unless you have a completely unconventional computer,
you should be having no difficulty with it. Please don't get upset when I
say this, but!!! Read The Manuals. I've been dealing with computers and
components every since starting out with keypunch and mainframes back in the
1970's and still today when I buy a new peripheral or install new software,
I take nothing for granted, (particularly my ability) and sit down and read
the instructions word for word, line for line until I'm relatively certain I
understand what it is I'm supposed to do. ;-)

I think you will get many hour of pleasure and enjoyment out of it. I know I
do with mine.

Just to see if it works as I said earlier since I'd never used it with
Windows, and to prove it can and does, here is a screenshot showing a shot I
took with the camera this morning and e-mailed to myself and the EasyShare
software up with another photo loaded ready to e-mail...

Caution! big pict, this is a dual headed set and the monitor real estate is
2048x768 ;-)

http://home.hot.rr.com/olgnuby/easy_share.jpg

I'm well satisfied with mine. The Printer in the Printer dock prints good
quality 4x6 prints and I can print either from my computer using photos I've
taken from another source, or from the camera card or memory previously, or
allows me to do a quick print of a photo in the camera memory or on a card.

Best wishes and good luck. I hope you get it going.

Charlie Lewis

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