My XT will not connect to Vista.

I had same problem. I tried the Canon customer support and got similar advice Muhammed gave, along with several additional steps to try. None of them worked. The only thing that worked was the above suggestion of setting the camera itself to the PTP for the communication setting of the menu.

It's too bad you have do do this work around, it does not allow for the same level of control as the pc communication setting.

Any suggestions for Vista 64-bit? I tried the Vista driver on the link offered by Mohammed and it did not work. Said to check the environment for suitability.

Dear Skathe:

please uninstall the drivers and then download the drivers for windows vista and install it.

Please click on the link below and download the driver with file VU600EN.exe
EOS USB WIA Driver 6.0.0 for Windows Vista

then install the drivers.
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/contro...

please let me know if this works.

Regards,

Mohammed

You can set the Camera to PTP comms in its menu window then Vista 64 will work apart from Camera remote control....

Thanks!!
The Canon website does not work because Vista does not recognize the driver. However, the PTP setting does work.
Whew (it took me quite a while to get to this solution).

I had the same problem and then figured it out!

- You might need to go to the canon website and install any drivers for your operating system. (Including the RAW driver)

- Next, you will need Photoshop CS or later

- Open up photoshop. Go to File > Import and you should see the Rebel XT on this list. Import images this way

The computer does this because you're not importing jpg images but RAW.

Well, that worked perfectly. Turn on your Rebel XT camera and under Menu then Tools go to Communication and set it to Print/PTP. Thank you to all you very smart people!

Try changing the communication settings on the last tab in the menu to Print/PTP. It worked for me. Vista would then recognize the camera - however it does not use any drivers from Canon for download.

PTP was the setting I needed too! With mny new Vista 64-bit PC, I spent hours trying to get the drivers installed for my Rebel XT using Canon's instruction to set the camera's Communication mode to "PC Connection." BAD ADVICE! Setting it to PTP was all I needed to do.

PTP worked! Thanks!