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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Printing and Faxing / May 2008How do you activate the fax component in XP?
I have the Home Edition, my system will not allow mt to activate the fax component. It keeps asking for a file name: fxscfgwz.dll but my system locater can not find it, I suppose because it is a dll file? Any way all I want to do is activate the fax component in XP Can some one help me?? Thanks, Jim Explain how you installed the fax component. Verify that your analog fax modem in on the WHCL.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I have the Home Edition, my system will not allow mt to activate the fax > component. It keeps asking for a file name: fxscfgwz.dll but my system > locater can not find it, I suppose because it is a dll file? Any way all I > want to do is activate the fax component in XP Can some one help me?? > Thanks, > Jim Hi Russ, The fax component is embedded in Windows XP. All I need is the CD and then I can activate the fax component. I dont have an analog fax modem, I have phone service thru my cable company an it works just like any telephone land line with the same features. > Explain how you installed the fax component. > Verify that your analog fax modem in on the WHCL. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thanks, > > Jim Read the link posted by Hal. It is not outdated. Moreover, you cannot use fax without an analog fax modem. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hi Russ, > The fax component is embedded in Windows XP. All I need is the CD and then [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> > Thanks, >> > Jim See if this helps: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835132 2. Why can't the XP Fax Installation Program find the Installation Files? Hal SignatureHal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@kvoa.com Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com > I have the Home Edition, my system will not allow mt to activate the fax > component. It keeps asking for a file name: fxscfgwz.dll but my system > locater can not find it, I suppose because it is a dll file? Any way all I > want to do is activate the fax component in XP Can some one help me?? > Thanks, > Jim Hi Hal, That thread is out dated. I have my phone service thru my cable company and it works just like any land phone line works with all the same features. I have been told by Microsoft that all I need is a Windows XP CD to insert when prompted, then I can activate the fax component. It seems as though Gateway(my PC MFR) only installed "part" of Windows XP when they sold it to me and the portion they neglected to install has the driver for the fax component. Lesson learned? you betcha. Never buy anything without getting the CD, Sharewear biz sux. Regards, > See if this helps: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Thanks, > > Jim > Hi Hal, > That thread is out dated. I have my phone service thru my cable company and [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>> Thanks, >>> Jim 1. The link Hal gave you is not outdated as far as fax install questions are concerned. 2. You almost certainly do NOT need a Windows XP CD, because OEMs such as Gateway put all the required files on your hard drive in the C:\i386 directory. 3. Regardless of what telephone "features" your cable company supports, your analog fax modem may not work reliably over that service. This is entirely separate from whether your analog fax modem is compatible with the notoriously finicky Windows XP Fax software. Check with your cable company. The bottom line is that you should be able to install Windows XP Fax with little problem ... if you take the time to read the information at the link provided. Whether it will actually work to send or receive faxes is much more questionable. SignatureLem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm It's possible that Dell did not do what it should have. It's more likely that the file is in an unexpected location. (or even in one of the cab files.) >> Hi Hal, >> That thread is out dated. I have my phone service thru my cable company [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > link provided. Whether it will actually work to send or receive faxes is > much more questionable. |
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