Re: CanoScan D1250U2F & Windows 7??????????????

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From: Nigel Feltham <nigel.felt...@btinternet.com>
Date: Jul 20 2010, 7:00 pm
Subject: CanoScan D1250U2F & Windows 7??????????????
To: comp.periphs.scanners


Lon wrote:
> Gridley wrote:
>> I would suggest getting Vuescan as it supports virtually all scanners
>> even if your operting system doesn't. I use a Canon FS4000 which is no
>> longer supported by any current operating system but it works fine on my
>> OSX6 iMac with Vuescan. Also I just downloaded the current driver and
>> software for my Epson V200 which promptly made scanning to jpeg
>> impossible. I need to look into that, but Vuescan works fine with the
>> V200 and I can still use the new Epson software to create PDFs.

>> If you do go that way check the Vuescan website to make sure you scanner
>> is supported.

> Would the Microsoft Virtual XP allow you to run the scanner in a virtual
> XP environment?
>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

I think this is mainly to allow incompatible applications to work and
from
that page it looks like it can share devices on the host system across
the
the guest XP system but no mention on whether it allows the XP system
to
access hardware devices that won't work on the host system by loading
the
driver into the XP system instead of the host Win7 one.

This also only works on Professional version of Win7 - if the original
poster only has a home edition then that option isn't available anyway
(VMWare should work on all windows editions and versions from Win 2000
onwards but you need to do your own install of the Guest Operating
system
inside it).
end of quote

I realize this thread is more than a year old.

.The CanonScan 3200F is the same scanner as the D1250U2F, and the
3200F offers a 32-bit driver for Windows