Originally Posted by octavmandru 
Fix the freakin' Remote Assistant! I'm currently using Windows 7, (it's a real pleasure this OS), and RA is, of course, not working.
Tried on Vista.... The same b.s.
Run the RA software "As Administrator" (blame MS' realllllly stupid UAC crap or run XP or Linux which doesn't have UAC ;-). Mine couldn't find the USB port until I did this. I documented this in the DSLR forum and put as many keywords as I could to make is searchable...