[rollei_list] Re: Scanners
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:50:11 -0400
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.
Eric Goldstein
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2012, at 03:49 PM, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Message sent to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, responding to two separate
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> At 11:21 PM 3/26/2012, John Jensen wrote:
>
> There is a workaround for Windows 7 but it might cost you some money. If
> you have Windows 7 Professional you can download free from Microsoft a
> software package that enables Windows Virtual PC. This will run Windows XP
> mode, operating within Windows 7, but with the look and feel of Windows XP.
> It will run any XP program.
>
> But if your Windows 7 is the Home Edition, you cannot load Windows Virtual
> PC. However, for an upgrade (priced at $89 I believe) from Home Edition to
> Professional you can then do the download. It's interesting that built
> within the Windows 7 package you have is the Virtual PC software and the
> upgrade process simply unlocks what you already have on your hardrive.
>
> Clever. You pays your money and you takes your choice as the expression
> goes.
>
> John
>
>
> and
>
> At 02:36 AM 3/28/2012, Laurence Cuffe wrote:
>
> How technical are you computer wise?
> One last thing that might be worth trying would be to run windows XP on your
> windows7 machine using virtualization software from Oracle, which is free
> https://www.virtualboxorg/
>
> You would have to install XP onto the virtual machine, and set up shared
> storage for transferring files to the windows 7 end of the system.
>
> I have not run this on a windows 7 machine, but I have used it to run a
> virtualized ubunto on an XP machine and have found the software very solid.
>
> All the best
>
> Laurence Cuffe
>
>
> OK guys, thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I tend to favor the upgrade on my home Windows 7 Home Premium to
> Professional allow download of the free virtual XP system from Microsoft,
> since the cost of the upgrade is about $89.95, far less than the value of
> the software I could retain, and also should be able to use my Canoscan
> D1230U, which works just fine for me.
> Has anyone on this list done this?
>
> The issue I have is whether you have to boot up into an exclusively virtual
> XP system with a separate registry, separate file system, or somehow you
> magically just run XP programs, and deal with XP-compatible hardware, while
> booted into Windows 7.
>
> On-line documentation of exactly how all this goes together is very
> incomplete. The problem being that the description say you can "Run many
> Windows XP business programs" but no comment about hardware and things like
> PhotoShop, etc.
>
> There is, of course, one other option I have. I have an HP laptop with XP
> still running on it. It would be a chore to move it to some flat surface in
> the office here (flat surfaces are at a premium) but I could install the
> scanner and other software on it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAW
>
>
>
>
>
> Ok, I see from the list that you are proceeding in other directions. Using
> the virtual machine program I linked to, the guest and the host operating
> machine were both operational at the same time. If the mouse was in the Host
> section I could do XP type things and in the guest section I could do Ubuntu
> type things. Both versions of the machine could see the hardware and both
> versions of the machine could see the internet. There is a facility to use
> a shared part of the hard disc as an area acesed by both OS's. I might try
> using my scanner within ubunto and seting up the OS with a shared area, and
> seeing if I can get a scan on Ubuntu, place scan in shared area and then run
> photoshop within the XP part of the operation workflow going.
>
> All the best
>
> Laurence Cuffe
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