Re: Scanner does not appear under 'My Computer' (CanoScan LiDE20)

From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:22:19 -0700

It's not supposed to show up under My Computer. To Scan, simple open a
graphics application like Paint and select Acquire from Sanner.

Or use the Canon ScanGear Toolbox. 

-- 
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"Ichinisan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:043e01c4ab2a$fc5e9690$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> My CanoScan LiDE20 works perfectly on all of my other
> Windows XP Professional installations, but it will not
> show the icon under 'My Computer' with my laptop. I
> recently did a clean install of Windows XP Professional
> with Service Pack 2 fully integrated. All hardware was
> working flawlessly with drivers that were provided either
> by Windows or Windows Update. The scanner was the first
> and only device that required me to visit the
> manufacturer's Web site (Canon). Rather than running the
> self-extracting executable, I extracted it using another
> application (WinRAR). Windows found the extracted driver
> files and told me that the scanner was "installed and
> ready to use". The 'Scanners and Cameras' item on the
> Control Panel reports that the scanner is fine. However,
> there is still no way to acquire images because the
> scanner's item never appeared under 'My Computer', even
> after a full system restart.
>
> I downloaded and ran "DelDrv", a driver-removal utility
> from Canon made specifically for their own scanner
> drivers. It seemed to work perfectly because Windows
> finally began asking for drivers again the next time I
> reconnected the device. I ran the driver installation
> normally, which didn't seem to do anything other than
> extracting itself. I allowed the New Hardware dialog to
> search and it found the freshly-extracted drivers and
> completed the installation.
>
> I still do not have the item under 'My Computer'. Please
> help me fix Windows so that I can acquire images without
> third-party software!
>

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