Re: can't use scanner with windows xp.

Kenny

How well does it work.. they are low resolution by today's standards, slow,
and the control software that worked with Windows 3.1/95 will not work with
XP.. OK, so you can get workaround drivers if you try hard enough.. there
are new scanners available that are really quite cheap, and will be way
better and more manageable..

Maybe it's me, but I just can't get sentimentally attached to pieces of old
computer junk that will only cause frustration in use.. Wesley has the right
idea, kinda, sorta.. wrap it up in cotton wool and place it next to the
Vic-20..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Kenny" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:egvHbIjpFHA.2504@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have an older Mustek 1200USB and it worked with Win2K drivers and a
>FIXWINXP utility from Mustek.
>
> --
>
> Kenny Cargill
>
>
> "Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:TdGtAGdu1ACDFwFG@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> rewindforward wrote on Sat, 20 Aug 2005:
>>
>>>Plustec OpticPro FBIVP scanner but from what I can tell I have to put
>>>it in the garbage because there's no drivers for windows xp. Fun.
>>>
>>
>> Not necessarily. You may still be able to use it; see here
>> http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/scanner/plustek/plustek.htm#winxp
>>
>> Look at Possible Workaround under Windows XP.
>>
>> Another possibility: I think your scanner is a parallel port model, isn't
>> it? If you use a parallel-to-USB converter cable you may be able to
>> "disguise" your scanner as a newer USB model, as far as XP is concerned,
>> and use a driver for that model. You may be able to pick up a cheap cable
>> on Ebay.
>>
>> This is more or less what I did: I have an old HP 4c scanner which HP
>> scandalously abandoned, along with a heap of other models, when XP came
>> along. Mine had a SCSI interface and I ended up buying a SCSI-to-USB
>> cable. It now works fine in XP and is detected as "HP 6100 or 4c/3c". The
>> existing scanning/copying etc. software from HP (dating back to 1999!)
>> also works fine.
>>
>> It may be less trouble to throw it out and buy a new one, as the MVPs
>> have suggested, but I think it's a dreadful waste of resources when you
>> already have a perfectly good scanner.
>>
>> I see you are posting from Google; may I recommend you post to the group
>> comp.periphs.scanners and ask for detailed advice there? You'll probably
>> find some people who have been faced with the same problem of a Plustek
>> scanner without XP drivers.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> --
>> Nightowl
>
>


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