How to disable the camera and scanner wizard
May 25, 2007 by admin
Filed under Desktop Computer
The scanner and camera wizard pops up whenever you plug in a digital camera. There was a time today when we wanted to disable this feature as it would become a problem when this came up on a client being used only for a Citrix desktop.
We fought with autoplay and that did not fix the problem of the scanner and camera wizard showing up. Finally to get rid of the scanner and camera wizard we went into the services and disabled the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) service
Worked a charm. I have to admit that camera/scanner wizard was a right pain as it renames all your pictures as they come through from the iPhone so are sorted by the iPhone’s filesystem order rather than any logical date/time/name convention. Changing it to copy pictures by default works every time now!
You can also disable this in the camera and scanner wizard under advanced user>>Iphone>> Show camera properties>>Events >>>Actions>>>Take no actions .
or
Controle pannel>>Printers and other hardware>>Scanners and camera>>>Iphone>
Scanner and camera wizard will pop up then select>>advanced users only>>show camera properties>>Select the Events tab>>under actions, select take no action>>>Apply>>then ok.
Thats it!
Geust, your answer was the right way of doing it. Great job!
A less roundabout way of doing it: Start windows explorer ( [WINDOWS KEY]+[E] ), right click the camera (or iphone), and select “Properties”. The rest is as Geust explained – Select “Events” Tab, and there will be an option to start the camera wizard when the camera is plugged in, or copy the images directly somewhere, or do nothing. For the iPhone I prefer “do nothing”, and then let iTunes do the syncing.
Thanks for your help, i got the same problem and worked after deleting all the files which are downloaded from email.
Does anyone know how to do this for Windows 7 with the iPhone? I can’t seem to find that info anywhere.
Thanks,
– J
thx for the tip, I had the same problem but now it works!
Greetz
Nick