Unable to display imges when connected to computer.

As I understand these kind of cameras does not charge when connected to a computer. You need a separate charger.
The A460 uses 2x Size-AA Alkaline or NiMH Batteries.

Try NOT connecting your camera to your computer.


The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.


Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.

You can download the photos directly using free picasa software's IMPORT tab.
Another method is to connect the camera Start.My Computer and you can see the camera as an external drive D: or E: Click on that and folders within until you see your photos. make sure to save extra copies of the enclosing photo folder.

try these:-

• connect it to pc and on it
• vaccum the barrel of lens
• changing mem. card and batt. for 2min.
• shake it.
• on and off in different positions
• hit the part near lens softly with palm (trust me this made mine work)

Enable the forced Flash option and try

Call Canon....they had a major CCD problem and they have a free fix.

There are different settings. You can view the past photos because you are using the viewer for that, but you have a setting off in the menu. You need to turn on view photo or preview photo after picture taken. I am not sure what it is in the Canon line, but look in your manual for the setting.

You have to select 'Postcard' for the image size -- on the same menu as L, M1, M2, M3, S, Postcard.

Have you tried pressing the Display button on the back?

The following blog outlines some repair options for a lens error. They won't work for all cases, but they're worth a try if the camera's no longer under warranty:

http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/fixing-lens-error-on-digital-camera.html