I purchased the brand new PowerShot SX280 HS three weeks ago. Being a person that actually reads directions and owners manuals, I followed the Getting Started booklet exactly as stated to connect the camera to my Win 7 (64-bit) PC, and it worked well...
No solution yet. I called Canon, talked to someone who didn't know much about the problem and who apparently didn't take a moment to read all these forum messages. Just wanted me to re-do all the troubleshooting I had already done from the forum. End...
I have been trying to (re-)connect to a desktop computer, which is on AC power, and the USB cord is plugged in to the front USB port, the same port as during the inital set-up, when it connected and set up fine. Watched Device Manager while connectin...
Tried using the wifi connection to connect to the computer, but even that doesn't work anymore! The camera finds, but cannot connect to the computer, and the computer gives me an error that the device driver software was not successfully installed. ...
Was not able to disconnect the printer from the computer because it is not connected directly to the computer; it is through the network. Did disconnect the webcam, re-booted, closed webcame software that was running, then tried to connect the camer...
Won't have a chance to try that (disconnect printer & webcam) until about 10 hours from now, but I don't understand how that could be the problem, since those were connected when I did the initial camera set up and connected to the computer just fine...