Each Canon digital camera (including Canon EOS dSLR) or digital camcorder comes with a software CD which contains various application programs specifically designed to support and enhance the electronic devices and its works. However, the CD disc media is kind of outdated, and the CD can easily lost, scratched, misplaced or simply cannot be found when in need. The practice of having to install old version first before able to install newer version is also not efficient. Sometimes, on some notebook or netbook, there isn’t even any CD or DVD optical drive available.
Canon does provide direct download for the setup installer or updater of the various Canon camera, camcorder, printer software programs at its support site (support and downloads for all localities is accessible from canon.com). The problem is that these setup installers are meant for upgrade only, although it contains everything in the full version of the software. In other word, the existing original application must already be installed on the computer, or the Canon CD must be inserted into CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to verify the ownership of Canon products.
Typically, the Canon installer will prompt the following dialog message if the program to upgrade or update is not yet been installed.
The software to be updated could not be found.
Insert the CD-ROM that came with your Canon product containing the following software into the CD drive, and then click
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