HP scanjet 4570c, IE7 and Vista

J

Joe

Some months ago I downloaded MS's IE7 browser- only to find out that HP's
Director program had gigantic conflict with IE7- causing my system to crash
so bad I had to reformat and reinstall everything - whereupon I got rid of
IE7.

I now have a new Dell with Vista and of course IE7..

I see on HP's web site that they now offer a striped down driver for the
scanjet and Vista- which will only scan but do nothing else. I downloaded it
but I'm concerned about installing it.

If I simply plugged the scanjet 4570c into my Vista machine, will it
recognize the scanner and will it install that simplified driver all by
itself from its collection of drivers?

Meanwhile, I'll start looking for a new scanner which is Vista compatible.

Joe
 
B

Barry Watzman

Do you mean an HP 5470C, rather than the 4570C as you stated?

HP says that the 5470C is not supported by Vista, but I installed the
last version of the software (which was pretty old, it was "pre-XP) on
Vista and if you let it "run as administrator" it seems to work fine.
 
J

Joe

It's the 4570c from around 2002. The problem is that the software which came
with it- called Director, which allows you to decide if you want to scan, do
OCR, make copies, etc... is incompatible with IE7. On my XP machine, after I
downloaded IE7, the incompatibility crashed the OS so bad I had to reformat
and reinstall everything. HP offers a striped down version of scanning
software for that scanner if you have IE7 installed (such as on all Vista
systems)- but it's a bare bones software which only allows you to do a
simple scan from within the MS Picture Viewer or whatever it's called.

So, I'm wary of even downloading that software- it's better to dump the
scanner and buy a new one- but, I'm curious what happens if I simply
attempted to plug it into my new Dell Vista box. Somebody out there must
have tried this.

HP really sucks for not making a driver for this scanner- and all the other
scanners and multi purpose items that used that Director software. My
scanner works perfectly- and I'm sure millions of other people will hate to
dump their item when they move to Vista or download IE7.

HP is obviously just trying to get us to buy new hardware- but I sure won't
buy another HP scanner after this. I'm sure their army of programmers could
come up with a fix for that Director software in a jiffy at little cost.

On Staple's web site I see some fine looking Canon scanners.

Joe
 

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