Xp Hardware On Win 10

I have a slide/film scanner Plustek OpticFilm 7200 originally designed to work with XP.

My XP machine is long-dead. Now I have a Win 10 64 bit comp but it won't accept the driver neither will it accept the updated (most recent 2011) Win 7 64bit driver from the manufacturer's (Plustek) website.

Any suggestions on how I might get my perfectly good scanner to work on my new comp?

Thanks in advance

 

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It starts off with Windows 8.1 but turns into Win 10 with a lot of responses. Some users tried to skip steps and had to go back to the beginning. Seems some users had 2 original CD's but some used older drivers from the 2 companies involved.

Hope it works for you!

 

PERFECT. This was exactly the answer I needed. Scanner up and running. Many thanks!

 

Nice find, Imandy Mann!

I am glad you got it up and running and thanks for posting your follow-up. But I have to say, consider yourself lucky. Many trying to get XP era hardware running on the latest operating systems are no so lucky.

I must add, this is the fault of the hardware makers, not Windows or Linux or MacOS, etc. It is the hardware maker's responsibility to develop drivers to ensure their hardware is properly supported. OS makers just can't be expected to develop and include unique coding in the operating systems to support 100s of 1000s of unique hardware devices. Windows is already over 30 million lines of code long and consumes many gigabytes of disk space - just for the OS itself!

The problem is, there is zero financial incentive for PlusTek, HP, Cannon, Brother, Epson and other hardware makers to spend the resources to develop, test, distribute and maintain those drivers for their legacy, obsolete and superseded hardware. They get $0.00 returns on those costly investments. They would much rather you and me buy a new scanner or printer instead.

I understand and appreciate the hardware maker's position. They need to sell new products pay their work-forces and to stay in business. I just wish it didn't work against us consumers.

Because W10 is constantly evolving, you should probably be prepared and expect your current solution to stop working some time down the road, and be prepared to shop for a new scanning device.

 

Yes all good points. I have no answers but it irks me to throw away perfectly good technology that used valuable energy and resources to make and might have only a few components recycled (if you're lucky) and cost good money, to replace it with something that does the same job that costs yet more hard earned cash which consumed even more resources to make so I can arrive back to where I was. As you point out, for once I've been lucky.

 

I hear you but in reality, this has been a fact of life for decades - and not just with computing hardware. The state-of-the-art gets bigger, smaller, faster, more powerful, etc,. and supersedes the old. New or advances in technologies arrive, pushing the old out.

In the past, I have "retired" perfectly good:

Reel to Reel tape recorders,
8-Track players,
Cassette players and recorders,
"Stereo" (2 channel) amplifiers and receivers,
CD players,
MP3 players,
Black and White TVs,
"CRT" (picture "tube") TVs (and monitors),
4:3 TVs (and monitors),
Cell phones,
Answering machines,
Caller ID,
Game consoles,
Dial telephones,
Film cameras,
The list goes on and on.​

For some reason, people really seem to take offense to this concept when it comes to actual computing and networking hardware. Yet even there, we have routinely done it with:

Hard drives,
Graphics cards,
CPUs,
Entire computers,
Floppy disks,
CD drives,
Monitors,
Laser printers,
Black and white ink jets,
4:3 LCD monitors,
RAM,
Dial-up modems,
Routers,
Switches,
USB devices,
Cable & DSL modems,
And on and on.​