Re: Driver for Scanner Canon USB 650U

"David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in message
news:Xns965153C1EF114drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
> "Markus Pubantz" <usenet2003-nospam-@thaifoto.de> wrote in:
>
>> it gives driver for this scanner already for XP64? Or can one take
>> the normal XP-driver?
>
> The normal XP drive probably won't work because it's not a 64 bit
> driver but you might try "decorating" the .inf file and see if that
> will make it work. Here's an article on how to "decorate" an .inf
> file:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888728
>
> You can edit .inf files with Notepad. Notice the "NTamd64" will
> probably have to be added at least twice, maybe more.

Decorating a 32-bit driver will not make it 64-bit. It will just make it
decorated (and therefore compatible with Windows 2003 Server SP1). If it
runs in kernel mode (as most drivers do) it must be recompiled.

ocbwilg

"ocbwilg" <> wrote in:

>
> "David R. Norton MVP" <> wrote in
> message news:Xns965153C1EF114drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
>> "Markus Pubantz" <usenet2003-nospam-@thaifoto.de> wrote in:
>>
>>> it gives driver for this scanner already for XP64? Or can one
>>> take the normal XP-driver?
>>
>> The normal XP drive probably won't work because it's not a 64 bit
>> driver but you might try "decorating" the .inf file and see if
>> that will make it work. Here's an article on how to "decorate"
>> an .inf file:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888728
>>
>> You can edit .inf files with Notepad. Notice the "NTamd64" will
>> probably have to be added at least twice, maybe more.
>
> Decorating a 32-bit driver will not make it 64-bit. It will just
> make it decorated (and therefore compatible with Windows 2003
> Server SP1). If it runs in kernel mode (as most drivers do) it
> must be recompiled.

It depends entirely on the device, decorating the driver worked
perfectly for my USB scanner and it's worth a try with every device.



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