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From: philo on 6 Jan 2010 20:12 Fred wrote: > My Canon scanner won't work on windows 7, and Canon are not releasing the > necessary driver. There is a driver available for purchase that will work > with any or at least most scanners, but does anyone know of a freeware one? > > I have an old HP scanner that I managed to get working with both Vista and Win7 simply by using the XP drivers. You may want to grab them off your XP machine of the installer is a self-extracting executable although I have heard that the installer will run if you use the compatibility mode (I have not tired it though)
From: Fred on 6 Jan 2010 21:13 "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:hi37ts0979(a)news3.newsguy.com... > From: "Fred" <reg(a)parachute.net.nz> > > > | Lide 30. Definitely not interested in paying for 3rd party software. I > do > | have an old laptop (XP) that I can keep for scanning. It's far from an > | everyday use for me. > > I have the SAME model ! :-) > > Have you tried the Vista version of the software ? > Yep. Doesn't work.
From: David H. Lipman on 6 Jan 2010 21:42 From: "Fred" <reg(a)parachute.net.nz> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message | news:hi37ts0979(a)news3.newsguy.com... >> From: "Fred" <reg(a)parachute.net.nz> >> | Lide 30. Definitely not interested in paying for 3rd party software. I >> do >> | have an old laptop (XP) that I can keep for scanning. It's far from an >> | everyday use for me. >> I have the SAME model ! :-) >> Have you tried the Vista version of the software ? | Yep. Doesn't work. Sorry to hear that Fred. You are SOL. Luckily the Canon flatbed scanners are relatively inexpensive. At least you will know that the replacement for the LiDE 30 will have a higher resolution and be faster. Albeit you did indicate you can get by by using the old scanner on an older platform. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: nomail on 6 Jan 2010 23:18 On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:44:01 +1300, "Fred" <reg(a)parachute.net.nz> wrote: >My Canon scanner won't work on windows 7, and Canon are not releasing the >necessary driver. There is a driver available for purchase that will work >with any or at least most scanners, but does anyone know of a freeware one? > My LIDE 25 works fine with a Ubuntu liveCD. A slight inconvenience but worth the small effort involved. Gumtrees ___________________ Graeme Challinor
From: Brian (Groups) on 7 Jan 2010 02:39
On Jan 7, 8:44 am, "Fred" <r...(a)parachute.net.nz> wrote: > My Canon scanner won't work on windows 7, and Canon are not releasing the > necessary driver. There is a driver available for purchase that will work > with any or at least most scanners, but does anyone know of a freeware one? I can't quite remember the details, but I recall getting my old Agfa scanner operating on XP from 98 by selecting a "generic" color flatbed scanner option from some dialog or other... maybe an "install new hardware" wizard or something. Might be worth having a poke around. Brian |