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I am too lazy to check it at the Ricoh Imaging website, but I think with a K-30 you should have the "Pentax Digital Camera Utility Version 4.40 by Silkypix".
On the disk there will probably be 4.0 or 4.1, but you can download 4.40 from the website. To install it, an earlier 4.x version must already be installed, or the disk with the older 4.x must be in your drive for a check.
If you still have a version 3.x - this is based on a much older Silkypix software, has much less options, is very slow and driving even a high end machine to its limits, and has never heard about user friendly front ends. With 3.x I cannot help you now, as it is only on one of my computers, to which I don't have access at the moment.
V4.x is not bad, and should offer everything the camera offers and much, much more. I cannot compare directly with you, as I use the German version, and all the texts are different.
But in any case you can customize the front end. I use a browser on the left top, histograms below, picture display center top (with file functions below), and all the many many twists in two blocks on the right third of the screen. There I can mod everything that can be done in the camera, including lens corrections (important if your body doesn't support it), but with way more options
I only own a K200D, which was delivered with 3.x, which I found very near to unusable.
So I bought a PDU4 disk from someone who owns several K-5 bodies, and found it is not bad.
Just a warning: In Germany there were recently several magazines with included DVDs where one could find "Silkypix Elements". This is a rather basic editor for JPGs. This version can also be bought in my country for presently €29. But RAW conversion is only included in a more expensive version.
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Originally posted by bluenose 
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