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re: XP works
Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 9:48 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ray B
(393 messages posted)
At first I thought my scanner wouldn't work, but XP had a generic scanner driver
that did kick in and allow the scanner to work through standard apps (Adobe Photo
Shop, Acrobat). My original scanner software, Visioneer, would not work in XP, but
that was no big deal.
On Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 5:24 am, Dave wrote:
>Right now my Plustek scanner 9630P does not work and there is not any drivers available.
>My father upgraded to XP, he has a IBM Idea2000 scanner that is only compatible
with
>WIN98. They said that it was discontinued, which is there way of saying that they
>are not going to spend anymore money or research time with this model. None of my
>WIN98 games work, with exception of one that had NT support.
>
>
>On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:44 am, Ray Bacon wrote:
>Your point is well taken, and we have all seen instances of updated drivers being
>required and hardware not being immediately compatible, but these problems can normally
>be resolved quite easily. Can you be more specific about the drivers and hardward
>that have impeded your upgrade to XP?
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>On Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 9:16 am, Dave wrote:
>It works great if you have the right drivers and if your hardware supports XP.
>Otherwise,
>get out the wallet out and upgrade components.
>
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>On Monday, November 19, 2001 at 8:42 pm, Ray Bacon wrote:
>For about a week now I've been reading of the various problems folks have been having
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>with XP. While I won't minimize the seriousness of some of these problems, this
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>hasn't been my experience.
>
>I did an upgrade of XP-Pro over Millennium (AMD-500, ASUS MB) and all my stuff worked
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>after the upgrade (except I did uninstall Nortons and Roxio, then reinstalled them).
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>I then did a reformat of a P-166 system (74 mb ram), and did a clean install of
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>XP
>-- worked fine!
>
>I know that I probably have better patience than many, but the upgrade and clean
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>install were just really smooth for me.
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>Having used DOS, Win3.1, Win95, Win98, Mill, and MVC mainframe programming, I'm
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>predisposed
>to expect wrinkles, but I find no particular annoyances with XP.
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>I would be suspicious of new machines with XP preloaded, because I don't trust other
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>people's images, and there is an adjustment required when migrating legacy components
>
>and apps, but these can be worked through.
>
>Anyway, those of you who are frustrated with XP in some way or another, HANG IN
>
>THERE!
- Written in response to:
- re: XP works (David: Saturday, November 24, 2001 at 5:24 am)
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