[rollei_list] Re: Scanners
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:41:39 -0400
At 07:50 AM 3/29/2012, Eric Goldstein wrote:
>If you wanted to operate the scanner under XP, the easier, cheaper,
>and more reliable route would be to make the machine dual boot with
>Windows 7 and Windows XP... you'd have to check the Intel chipset for
>driver availability for XP to see if this is an option.
>
>I do this all the time for customers and it works flawlessly. The
>laptop I am posting this message from is a dual boot XP/7 HP dv2035US
>that one of my customers got tired of and gave me. It's a great little
>machine. I keep XP on it because I have an old copy of CS2 that needs
>XP to run.
>
>The irony of all this is that Don's old computer is probably perfectly
>fine for the purpose of running his scanner. Just reinstall XP and get
>all the cr*p off the machine, put it on the network, and transfer the
>scans to any machine he wants.
Why not install Windows XP on the new
lap-top? That would resolve every problem he has
set out and would allow him to run Wolftenstein
3D, and whyever would anyone want a machine which
could not run that ultimate game?
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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