I am at the reinstall windows point ...I have fresh as a daisy winxphomesp3 on my computer with msoffice2002 and coupla other things on already due to a crash ...now I want to use the scanner without that presto garbage which blocks lots of resources while it runs and makes my box sludge ...on the laptop the scanner runs with some thing called Micro$oft Image Viewer or something like that and it works great! So, do I need the driver installed for this thing or do I just plug it in?
-----Original Message----- From: Tony B [mailto:ton...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:50 PM Subject: Re: scanner You probably shouldn't really need to install a driver at all in WinXP. Though, there may be some special hardware features (e.g. an instant scan button) that would require proprietary software. So, just uninstall Presto and use something else. Or leave it installed and use something else. Maybe I'm just not understanding the dilemma. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:46 PM, rleesimon <rleesi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a swell little scanner ...travelscan 464 ...it comes, of > course, with a cd...well, it includes presto image manager which is > slow/cumbersome; on my laptop the scanner shows up with microsoft > image manager software and works like a champ (winxpprosp3) ...I have > no idea how it got that way. After crash, my desktop (winxphomesp3) is > redone fresh (a parallel xp install got me everything back ...cool). > I don't want Presto and I wonder how to get it to work like on my > laptop? Do I need to just install the driver without Presto? Or > what? Before, I had to run a black and white sheet through the > scanner with the presto thing to get it initialized. I don't think my > laptop ever required that and it works fine & scans fine. How should I > approach this? ...TIA!! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
