auto play.

glaswegian

hi all. i've been trying to upload photo's from a cf card and my phone to my laptop,but for some reason the auto play function won't work. i uploaded photo's last week without any bother but now auto play seems to have disappeared. i'm not too computer literate,:rolleyes:so be gentle with me. thanks.

sebphoto

glaswegian wrote: »

hi all. i've been trying to upload photo's from a cf card and my phone to my laptop,but for some reason the auto play function won't work. i uploaded photo's last week without any bother but now auto play seems to have disappeared. i'm not too computer literate,:rolleyes:so be gentle with me. thanks.

What operating system you have?

glaswegian

Hi,I have windows vista.

sebphoto

glaswegian wrote: »

Hi,I have windows vista.

Open control panel \ autoplay:

glaswegian

Thanks for your help,I'm at work at the moment,but I'll be online this evening and maybe we can cure the problem.

glaswegian

hi,i inserted a dvd and the auto play function is working for that,but still no sign of it when i plug in the card reader to upload the photo's.

bonzodog2

When you say upload, do you mean upload to somewhere on the internet, or just copy to your computer's hard disk? If the latter, just use Windows Explorer to copy files

sebphoto

glaswegian wrote: »

hi,i inserted a dvd and the auto play function is working for that,but still no sign of it when i plug in the card reader to upload the photo's.

See this

glaswegian

thanks bonzodog,sorry about the bad terminology.i usually upload to computer then edit in picassa, and then upload some photo's to my flickr photostream,any time iv'e done this i have used auto play,i wouldn't know any other way of doing it.

glaswegian

sebphoto,thanks for the link,the first option is straight forward enoug(i followed the instructions but auto play still wont work) the next couple of options are a bit beyond my computing skills.i.e. where do i type service.msg ?,where do i find regedit. apologies if these questions seem a bit dumb but, as i said in my first post i'm not too computer literate. thanks for reading.

sebphoto

glaswegian wrote: »

sebphoto,thanks for the link,the first option is straight forward enoug(i followed the instructions but auto play still wont work) the next couple of options are a bit beyond my computing skills.i.e. where do i type service.msg ?,where do i find regedit. apologies if these questions seem a bit dumb but, as i said in my first post i'm not too computer literate. thanks for reading.

No worries.
Services.msc - start>run> type services.msc and enter
regedit - same as above - start > run>

To be honest it might be better if you just attach your card reader and press two buttons: windows key + e, you will have explorer on the screen and you can copy whatever you want from your card to your hard drive.

glaswegian

thanks sebphoto,the windows solution worked a treat.

sebphoto

glaswegian wrote: »

thanks sebphoto,the windows solution worked a treat.

I always use either shortcut keys or command line

This might be handy for you: http://www.shortcutmania.com/Windows-7-Keyboard-Shortcuts-printable-cheatsheet.htm