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BIL upgraded his work oomputer to W10 from W7 and now the Canon rscanner is working inconsistently. Have changed software from ScantoPDF to WinScan2PDF and after working for a bit yesterday it has now stopped.

Are driver updates required / automatic or should be go to Canon support site ?
Any ideas ?
Any good support sites ?


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 10:17 am
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Driver / software updates would be my first port of call, aye. Have a look on Canon's site.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 10:59 am
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My LiDE 25 has been rendered inoperative with W10. IIRC 64Bit OS's are not playing well with some older scanners and W10 has made it even worse.

I gather there's a third-party driver/software package you can buy, thought I forget where from.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:02 am
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Thanks muchly. Off round to the office later (not a holiday in France) trying to debug an unfamilair os in a foreign language - all guess work anyway really ๐Ÿ˜‰ Have to chuckle as wisdom of boss / BIL upgrading OS then going skiing for a week leaving office hand in the merde.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:05 am
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Have you tried running the program in compatibility mode were you can select Wndows 7?


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:18 am
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Our MP160 has officially been left behind by Canon. Unofficially you just need the Win 7 64 bit drivers and you can use it through the Windows fax and scan app, no more MP Navigator (yaay).

Admittedly it took a few attempts and then for some reason it just worked I think the success was down to using 7 drivers instead of the usual Vista ones and not running in compatibility mode. I'd advise just googling for his particular model.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:20 am
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Thanks again, will look at all of this. Model is MF5730 will google it


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:38 am
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Will check the above links too. Ta.

PS - Cougar I emailed you a while back...


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:40 am
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Did you? That's odd. Will check.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:43 am
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Oh dear. I'm a nob.

I set up a STW filter on my email a while back to keep everything in one place, then promptly forgot all about it. There's half a dozen unread emails in there from various folk. Oops.

I'll get back to you over the weekend at some point.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 11:46 am
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Update. Re-installed drivers and it does seem the old scanning software (winscan2pdf and the canon) does not work with Win10. Vuescan does work but its $50 + 8O. .... more searching required


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 3:29 pm
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๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐Ÿ˜ฅ ๐Ÿ˜ฅ


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 5:25 pm
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Revert to Windows 7 while you still can?


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 8:37 pm
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Why are you running that? If the drivers work windows can do it natively without using proprietary software.


 
Posted : 25/03/2016 9:51 pm
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Why are you running that? If the drivers work windows can do it natively without using proprietary software.

Windows fax/scan does not work - just hangs ...... vuescan worked fine but we are looking for something without the cost. Focus on getting a newer scanner to work. Absolute crime that aperfectly working device now looks like its jink after W10 "upgrade"


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 12:06 am
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Hmm works fine for me, wonder if the drivers are the issue?

Looks like Canon are still making drivers for it...

http://support-sg.canon-asia.com/contents/SG/EN/0900814201.html

...and software...

http://support-sg.canon-asia.com/contents/SG/EN/0200156304.html

...and Windows 10 is listed as supported for both.


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 4:16 am
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@squirrel - thanks for those links, we tried replacing the drivers more than once but happy to try again. The WFS app just hangs trying to establish a connection to the scanner, its a multi-function device and printing works.


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 10:36 am
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Yeah, I had to make sure the old ones were compketely uninstalled including any and all canon software. PITA but I couldn't see much under windows 10 issues, it could be an 8+ thing. Not got time to look today, night shift again tonight so will have another search and see if theres anything of note that could be causing it.


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 2:56 pm
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Thanks for look, have a good day. We"re battling on. Took 15 mins to find the physcial connection to other scanner (had to lift scanner lid ๐Ÿ˜ณ ) Its been an IT day as we put a new ssd into a friends mac. We sent her a spoof picture of tools required.

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Posted : 26/03/2016 3:49 pm
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Sad to say you're probably not that far off the mark there!


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 4:49 pm
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Got the newer Brother scanner/printer working before running out of time. Haven't given up on the Canon yet ๐Ÿ˜•


 
Posted : 26/03/2016 11:47 pm
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I have the same scanner. I couldn't get it to work with Win10. The printer still works fine. It's over 10 years old now so not really surprising that Canon have stopped supporting it with drivers. I have a bunch of other scanners at work so wasn't worth wasting much time trying to get it working. It was nice to have a scanner at home as well though, sof you do get it to work, please post what you did.


 
Posted : 27/03/2016 12:44 pm