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I disremember - can Windows ME mount a USB camera as an external drive? I think so - I think it was Windows 97 that required a driver to be installed for every USB thingie you wanted to use.
Anyway, if that's the case, Kathy A can just drag and drop pictures from her camera to her computer, and not install the camera software at all. Right?
Thanks for that, tommyrot!! I pulled out the more detailed info, and it says on the front "You may download images without installing this software on recent OS other than Windonws 2000, with limitations." So, it looks like I can probably do that, at least until I can afford a new laptop.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!
Kathy, for WinMe, you will still probably have to search the camera manufacturer's web site for the drivers. What make/model camera is it?
A Canon PowerShot A720 IS. In the System Requirements chart, they don't even mention ME as a possible workable OS, just Windows 2000 and newer ones.
There might also be an option on your camera to have it appear as a USB drive, in which case you'd probably need to select that option if you don't install the camera software.
Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?
It's actually pretty funny....
Regarding off-hand mousing...
...if you mouse with your other hand it feels like somebody else is doing it.
I don't know, MM. I'm left-handed and mouse with my right hand. It falls into the category of things I do right-handed because society is set up for right-handed people.
I switch mouse hands depending on my wrists. For about two years, I moused exclusively with my left hand. (I'm mousing right handed these days, but may switch back if need be.) So long as I set the buttons up mirrored, I don't notice a difference. (But I'm basically ambi, and occasionally forget which hand I write with.)
I am left-handed and mouse right. i definitely notice a difference doing fine, finicky things, and will switch to the left hand for them. But I am pretty right hand useless in most things, so that shouldn't be a shock.