Re: UMAX ASTRA 610P SCANNER DRIVERS

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What you, and everybody else, forget is that Microsoft doesn't do 3rd party
drivers. They are supplied ***TO*** Microsoft by the various hardware
manufacturers, for inclusion with the operating system. If the device
manufacturer does not supply them, there is no native support for the old
device in the new operating system.

If the device manufacturer does NOT want to update "their" device drivers to
make THEIR old device compatible with a new operating system - take it up
with the device manufacturer! They are the ones who are forcing you to buy
new equipment, not the operating system supplier.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

<plew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:PtKdnYMCko_MN2LfRVn-3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On 2005-08-14, Evadne Cake <magrat_garlick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:40:04 +0100, Chris wrote
>> (in article <B576508D-9806-461C-86FE-30BD40D55902@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>
>>> Has anybody got any idea how I can get my Astra 610P scanner to work
>>> under
>>> Windows XP Pro?
>>>
>>> It is supposedly supported using WMIA drivers (Umax do not do an XP
>>> driver).
>>> I have downloaded and tried all the various Umax drivers (for Windows
>>> 2000/ME
>>
>>> etc.)
>>>
>>> I have also tried all the suggestions I could find on the Net, including
>>> on
>>> the Microsoft site.
>>>
>>> In 6 months I have managed to get the scanner working three times, but
>>> each
>>> time I shut down my PC, the next time I boot up XP can't see the
>>> scanner. The
>>
>>> Scanner And Camera Wizard says "The computer cannot detect the scanner
>>> or
>>> camera. Please make sure the device is turned on and properly connected
>>> to
>>> the computer."
>>>
>>> On the second occasion that the scanner worked, it did not work when I
>>> booted up the next time. So I deleted C:\Windows\Twain.dll and
>>> C:\Windows\Twain_32.dll and also all TWAIN... folders, and deleted the
>>> scanner. When I booted up again and added the imaging device (scanner)
>>> it
>>> actually worked. However, I have not been able to get it to work since.
>>>
>>> The scanned worked without problems under Windows 98.
>>>
>>> People say "buy a new scanner", but I think that is a defeatist approach
>>> and
>>> the waste of a perfectly good scanner that gives perfectly good results
>>> (Operating system allowing).
>>>
>>> Can anybody tell me how to get it working every time?
>>>
>>
>> I have a perfectly good Betamax VCR , why should I buy VHS? That's more
>> or
>> less what you're asking. You have 10 year old scanner and you expect
>> there to
>> be drivers for a 3 year old OS. That scanner was obsolete when XP went
>> gold.
>> Replacing it isn't "defeatist" it's the practical thing to do.
>>
>
> Winxp only list the 610 model scanner by umax & it doesn't even list
> the umax/astra 2200. If m$ has listed the scanner & provided the
> driver on their system, it should work especially if it was id'ed as
> a m$ driver product.
>
> 10 year old monitors should still work in winxp; 10 yr old scsi
> hard drives should still work; 10 yr old modems should still work;
> 10 yr old printers should still work; 10 yr old keyboards should
> still work.
>
> The OP had stated a situation that was similar to my & a few others'
> experiences with connection to an external dial-up modem. For whatever
> reason, windows terminal programs, especially the program that came with
> windows, no longer can find the modem BUT the "test" claims that it is
> there; my solution was to dig out my DOS terminal program which worked
> & just told my coworker to use a DOS program or reinstall windows
> & pray.


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