Thinking more carefully about your reply, I tried a different lead and Voila! they are connected! thank you yours embarassedly. Toto

Thanks Gartmore for that quick reply. All response to the connection of the camera is conspicuous by its absence. XP pro works perfectly, so does the Optio mx4 but together, nothing at all. No icons on start bar, nothing on windows explorer, they just not talking to each other. Gulp, more tea, another fag, camera back in box. Thanks again.

I am unable to get Windows XP pro to recognise my Optio mx4. The installation disk I have says for Win 98. It also says my p.c. has insufficient this that and the other to install it. Neither can I find downloadable software to achieve this goal. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you.