I am using UMAX ASTRA 5600 and its working fine with Win XP.
Now, I have got a New PC with Vista Ultimate.  On this PC, this scanner is
getting recognized, but when I try the Preview/Scan option using the inbuilt
programs (Windows Live Photo Gallery or MS Office Document Scanning) ...

Can not install shared printer on Vista PC to another Vista PC.
The message is "Cannot connect to the printer.  Error 0x000006fd"
Both PC are joined to WinNT4 domain and users are logged domain\user.
As Local Printer it works.

I want to scan text but the profile has only file types for pictures.  How do
I get file types for text?

Vista Bus x64 / Office Pro 2007
Can anyone advise if & how to do the following that were simple to do
in XP fax:
1. Save a single page of a multipage fax as an image (.png, gif, tif,

Will some form of FAXing and scanning be available in the Home Premium
edition or only in the business edition.
I have need for both of these features but do not want the business edition.
Maybe they are available in the Office 2007 standard suite?

For love nor money can I install a Canon ip4200 on a Vista Home system.
Worked fine under XP, I have installed the latest Canon Vista driver
(v2.00, b6C03MUx.exe) then when prompted connected the printer and
switched on, I got an error saying the USB device could not be

Hi,
i had Vista X86 ultimate installed on my system, i have HP 6l gold
printer, when i pulg in the wire it does not install the drivers and HP
now not providing support for this printer. earlier when i m using XP

I'm using a Canon MP800R multifunction printer/scanner. The problem is,
I can't install it on my network. Canon were not very helpful and said
it was a "Vista specific issue", not "Canon specific".
Canon use a weird install procedure starting with a USB connection and

I have 4 computers connected to my wireless network.The main one connected
to  a local Printer,sharing all 4 computers with no problem , but recently
added a new laptop vista ultimate to my network,the printer is visible on
the laptop,but when I go to print,

i cannot seem to do much with my all in one printer now that I have updated
to vista.  all of the simple things which used to be accessible through the
all in one centre cannot be done any more as the centre is now longer
available.  can anyone suggest any other ways of scanning ...

I was not having a problem printing my calendars and then all of a sudden, it
stopped printing from a certain time to time. Now, it won't print the whole
day anymore, and I can't find a place to change the print times. I already
changed the time settings under File-Options... and ...

I am new to VISTA.  We have an HPd135 all-in-one printer.  With XP we
could send out broadcast faxes utilizing the hp officejet d series fax
driver, and our fax list in MS Access.  Very easy.
Now, with VISTA fax and scan, VISTA wants to access our email addresses

I have a Gateway laptop running Vista Home Premium. I also have a Dell 4600
on which I have a Epson Stylus Color 600 installed. I can share this printer  
with another computer running Windows 98SE with no problem. When I try to add
this printer and share it with laptop on my ...

I am at my wits end!!
I cannot print from my 4 day old Laptop loaded with Vista Home Premium to
the printer attached to my XP SP2 Machine.  I could print from my previous XP
SP2 laptop without problems.  On both machines, all firewalls are off, all

I've got an issue with printer sharing with a client's PC setup.  
*The setup is:*
Desktop with XP Home (Windows Firewall, all Norton crap removed, LLDP
responder patched, in the workgroup WORKGROUP).   Logs in to Admin