>>Although, what I'm about to write doesn't answer your question, you may be intereted to know ...
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>>For my camera I never plug it into my PC. I have an external memory reader and when I want to get my photos I just eject the memory card and stick it into the reader. That way I'm not using my cameras' batteries and there is no delay while Windows detects the camera being added.
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>When you use that type of hardware, do you have to put the camera card into an adapter before putting it into the reader? Such as we do for PCMCIA?

No, reminds me of using a floppy disk. Stick it in, access it, when done, eject it. And memory readers a very inexpensive.