geordie01. I thought that it was compulsory and part of the procedure when buying the camera. I'll not be doing it again then.

To all of the above members who came to the aid of an old 'duffer'. Thank you very much, your help was very much appreciated. After around three hours I have finally managed to update my K-r, thingy!
You don't realise the problems that arise when you are on your own and the manuals never give you all the information that you need. If I was pc literate and know what I think I know now, the whole operation from download to finishing the update would have taken about ten minutes.
My first day as a member is nearly over. Now all I need to do is learn how to work the K-r 'thingy'. Does anyone know how to ....... Kind regards. Gedski.

Please forgive if this is regarded as spamming but I am trying to help myself as much as I can. I hope what follows is correct.
I have managed to format my SDHC cards, I hope.
I think that I have managed to copy the update file onto my SDHC card by doing this. I dragged the file icon directly onto the top of the drive letter 'H' on my pc.
I am now waiting for my battery to be fully charged before I try to finish the updating. I believe that if your battery is not fully charged then the camera will be U/S and will not work. Am I correct in what I have tried to do, please?

I've managed to format my sdhc cards. The firmware file on my pc downloads page reads thus. FWDC208B.bin and not 209. It is from here on that I am stuck. I haven't a clue how to copy the update onto my card. That is my problem, gentlemen. Kind regards.

OK! Here I go.
I'm not pc literate. My SDHC are the ones that I used in my previous bridge camera. I've never been aware of formatting them. I have been taking a few 'pics' today. I probably need to know how to format my cards. Yippee!
It all starts to deteriorate after the download. I can't get any further. Kind regards.

I have downloaded v. 1.11 firmware update. I have read the readme file. However, which ever of the two ways available to install the update nothing at all happens. My K-r says that I am running v 1.0. My pc tells me that it cannot open this file. I have win7 installed. Has anyone any ideas, please?

..... so named by 'friends' long ago after the great Gatsby. Don't ask!

I have literally just 'joined up'. My photographical knowledge, I would rate as +/- zero. I have, yesterday, bought something called a Pentax K-r, which comes with two 'thingies', one is 18-55mm and the other is 50-200mm.

The last twenty four hours or so has been spent reading a novel named Pentax K-r Operating Manual, not much of a plot or story but otherwise rather interesting. I haven't used my machine properly as yet as I am still trying to understand things.

I am sure that I shall have lots of, possibly, stupid questions but I will try to keep them to a minimum and use searches before I ask. I have already availed myself of the assistance on the internet and I hope to learn at an acceptable rate of knots. Thank you and kind regards, Gedski.