Vista Tutorial - Scanner software

My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
Is there some way to install the program in Vista?

Your help would be appreciated.
Peter.

No way that I know of..

I have a HP Officejet 6110 all-in-one that also used HP Director.
And, since Vista Home Premium does not include any scan & fax software, I
purchased
Vuescan for scanning.


"Harry" <harry@home.nl> wrote in message
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> My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
> essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
> Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
> software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
> The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
> Is there some way to install the program in Vista?
>
> Your help would be appreciated.
> Peter.
>

"Harry" <harry@home.nl> wrote in message
news:eth422$ctn$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
> My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
> essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
> Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
> software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
> The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
> Is there some way to install the program in Vista?
>



Probably not but chances are some other application would work...

If your application was OCR...then you'd need another OCR app known to work
with Vista...
otherwise...
any application with importing functions would do the job.
I've used the free program IrFanview to get non-supported scanners working
(but have not tested it with Vista yet)

"Harry" <harry@home.nl> wrote in message
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> My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
> essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
> Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
> software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
> The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
> Is there some way to install the program in Vista?
>
> Your help would be appreciated.
> Peter.

I have a similar problem with my now-ancient, but still usable, HP ScanJet
4c. Vuescan is a standalone program that installs its own drivers and
probably has a driver for your software. I installed Vuescan on my Vista
Business system and it works great with my old HP scanner. The only
downside is that I can only scan from within the program -- I can't use the
scanner under things like Word and Photoshop. Still, it's better than
trashing an otherwise-perfectly good scanner.


>

"Harry" <harry@home.nl> wrote in message
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> My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
> essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
> Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
> software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
> The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
> Is there some way to install the program in Vista?
>
> Your help would be appreciated.
> Peter.

Try this,

In your install EXE, click Properties, Compatibility and check Win XP
compatibility.

Maybe you can get lucky.

"Harry" <harry@home.nl> wrote in message
news:eth422$ctn$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
> My HP scanner (Scanjet 7650) uses a program called HP Director, which is
> essential for scannung documents and which I am unable to install in Vista
> Business. The Vista driver for this scanner is available, but the scanning
> software can not be installed, although it worked fine under Win XP Prof.
> The HP site does not contain any Vista updates.
> Is there some way to install the program in Vista?
>
> Your help would be appreciated.
> Peter.
>
>

if you decide to purchase another application, Paperport is hard to beat
http://www.nuance.com/paperport/professional/

In article <#G#KvGLaHHA.5020@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Philo wrote:

> I've used the free program IrFanview to get non-supported scanners working
> (but have not tested it with Vista yet)

I'd clean forgotten that Irfanview can run a scan!

It works fine with VISTA -- I just did a test -- but does it only work with
TWAIN connected scanners?

If you've seen other posts of mine, you'll know that I have my old HP SJ5P
working under VISTA using the very old HP Deskscan 2.9 software that
communicates via TWAIN.

Was the problem literally with installing it or with running it? Did
you get any error messages when installing?

If it's with installing then try it again but instead of autoplaying
the installation find the autorun.exe file on the media, right mouse
click on it and select Run as Administrator.

If it installs but won't run then I wonder if you have run into a
conflict with IE7 that apparently existed with XP.

See:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79715


Re: HP Photo and Imaging Director Hates IE7

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Click (or double-click) on the Director Icon like you normally do to
run it... the program is starting, but hiding.

After a second or two, hit <ALT><Space> on the keyboard. That will
"pop-up" a dialog box... click "Minimize" (may have to click it twice).
You will then see the Director icon appear in the taskbar. Click the
taskbar Director button and the program will then come up and work
normally.

OR

put the following text in a .txt file with Notepad and save as a .js
file, give it any name, put file somewhere on your pc and change the
target for your HP Director icon so that it goes to the .js file. HP
Director should now open normally although larger box than usual!

var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var dirfile="C:\\Program Files\\Hewlett-Packard\\Digital
Imaging\\bin\\Hpqdirec.exe";
var oExec = WshShell.Exec(dirfile);
WScript.Sleep(3000);
WshShell.SendKeys("%( )"); //equivalent of Alt+spacebar
WshShell.SendKeys("nn"); //equivalent of click minimize twice
oExec = WshShell.Exec(dirfile);

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You might be able to adapt that script if the manual technique works.

Good luck

"Hugh Wyn Griffith" <huwyngr@unspam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> In article <#G#KvGLaHHA.5020@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Philo wrote:
>
> > I've used the free program IrFanview to get non-supported scanners
working
> > (but have not tested it with Vista yet)
>
> I'd clean forgotten that Irfanview can run a scan!
>
> It works fine with VISTA -- I just did a test -- but does it only work
with
> TWAIN connected scanners?
>
> If you've seen other posts of mine, you'll know that I have my old HP SJ5P
> working under VISTA using the very old HP Deskscan 2.9 software that
> communicates via TWAIN.
>

It's a darn good app.
saved my butt many times!!!!

"Hugh Wyn Griffith" <huwyngr@unspam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Was the problem literally with installing it or with running it? Did
> you get any error messages when installing?
>
> If it's with installing then try it again but instead of autoplaying
> the installation find the autorun.exe file on the media, right mouse
> click on it and select Run as Administrator.
>
> If it installs but won't run then I wonder if you have run into a
> conflict with IE7 that apparently existed with XP.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=79715
>
>
> Re: HP Photo and Imaging Director Hates IE7
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Click (or double-click) on the Director Icon like you normally do to
> run it... the program is starting, but hiding.
>
> After a second or two, hit <ALT><Space> on the keyboard. That will
> "pop-up" a dialog box... click "Minimize" (may have to click it twice).
> You will then see the Director icon appear in the taskbar. Click the
> taskbar Director button and the program will then come up and work
> normally.
>
> OR
>
> put the following text in a .txt file with Notepad and save as a .js
> file, give it any name, put file somewhere on your pc and change the
> target for your HP Director icon so that it goes to the .js file. HP
> Director should now open normally although larger box than usual!
>
> var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
> var dirfile="C:\\Program Files\\Hewlett-Packard\\Digital
> Imaging\\bin\\Hpqdirec.exe";
> var oExec = WshShell.Exec(dirfile);
> WScript.Sleep(3000);
> WshShell.SendKeys("%( )"); //equivalent of Alt+spacebar
> WshShell.SendKeys("nn"); //equivalent of click minimize twice
> oExec = WshShell.Exec(dirfile);
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You might be able to adapt that script if the manual technique works.
>
> Good luck
I managed to install it in the "compatibility mode", however it will not
run. The program is blocked, Vista tries to find a solution and eventually
it tells me "to contact HP" HP however is not particularly keen to upgrade
software for their equipment. They are primarily interested in the customer
buying new Vista compatible hardware.
Thx very much for your help
Harry (Netherlands)
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