Hello!

I just bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7 digital camera, with which I have taken several pictures, which I now want to load on to my PC. When connecting the camera to my PC and turning it on, the hardware installation wizard appears, recognizing the camera, as a DMC-FX7. But I can't find any drivers for this camera anywhere. Not on the enclosed CD, not on the Panasonic web-site or anywhere else I've looked.

Having browsed the internet for a while now, I have learned that Windows XP shouldn't recognize the camera as a DMC-FX7, but rather as a generic USB Mass Storage device, showing up in explorer as a removable device, without the need for installing any further specific drivers. This doesn't happen on my system.

If anyone has a remedy for my problem, I would immensely appreciate it!

I must add that I've tweaked my XP installation, by turning off unneeded services in accordance to www.blacviper.com and removed uneeded files in the windows folder, in the belief, that these files always could be found on my Win XP installation cd...

My system is:
Toshiba Satellite 1900-102 laptop
Pentium 4, 1,7 GHz, 512 Mb SD Ram
Windows XP Home Edition, SP2

I hope for a helping answer!

Kind regards,

Vegard