May 25 2007

How to disable the camera and scanner wizard

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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

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    4 Responses to “How to disable the camera and scanner wizard”
    1. Markos Knight says: September 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am

      Nice, the Wizard pops up whenever I dock my iPhone! Thank you!

    2. Bob says: October 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

      Works, but you disable all functionality for all such devices (other cameras, scanners, …)
      You might want to …
      open “My Computer”,
      locate the device,
      go to it’s properties (from the context menu),
      select the “Events” tab,
      and choose “Take no action”

    3. DD says: October 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

      Just wanted to mention that Services is in Administrative Tools, which is in Control Panel.

      Hey, I didn’t know…

      –iPhone user

    4. Mark says: November 11th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

      Bob’s suggestion worked great for me, an iPhone user tired of getting the Wizard whenever I dock my iPhone. Thanks.

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