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| Guest | Adding Fax to Vista Home Premium? I've got two PCs, one with Vista Ultimate, and one with Premium. For reasons that are too complex to discuss, the Ultimate PC is unable to connect to the fax line. Is it possible to transfer the Windows system files from the Ultimate PC to the Premium PC so that I can set up faxing on it? |
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| Guest | Re: Adding Fax to Vista Home Premium? Windows Fax and Scan is only found in the Vista Business and Ultimate editions, not in Vista Home Premium. You cannot copy system files from Vista Ultimate to Vista Home Premium. Consider purchasing a dedicated fax program such as Snappy Fax: http://www.snappysoftware.com/ -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows System & Performance --------------------------------------------------------------- "Nigel Molesworth" wrote: I've got two PCs, one with Vista Ultimate, and one with Premium. For reasons that are too complex to discuss, the Ultimate PC is unable to connect to the fax line. Is it possible to transfer the Windows system files from the Ultimate PC to the Premium PC so that I can set up faxing on it? |
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| Guest | Re: Adding Fax to Vista Home Premium? Do you know if Microsoft is planning to remedy this glaring omission of fax capability in home versions of Vista? This is almost as bad as the lack of Vista driver support for printers, scanners, and other hardware. I already had to keep my old XP computer running to use a perfectly good and relatively new scanner, and now I have to use the XP computer to send faxes. It calls into question why anyone should buy a new computer when the OS provides less functionality in basic areas that are very important to home users. I guess the word "Premium" just doesn't mean what it used to. And adding insult to injury, the Vista Premium Help and Support function doesn't tell the user that the fax capability has been removed when a Vista Premium home user searches for "fax". This left me looking on my computer for 45 minutes for something that does not exist. Only a general Google search led me to the answer, including this thread. If Microsoft thought that removing fax capability was such a great idea, why hide the truth when Vista Home Premium users search for "fax" in Vista's Help and Support? Obviously, I am not happy with Vista and probably cannot be made happy, but I do thank you for listening. "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Adding Fax to Vista Home Premium? Drivers for fax related equipment are primarily the responsibility of vendors, not Microsoft. Next, I'd agree that dropping fax capability from the home versions was a bad idea from the customer viewpoint. On the other hand, the popularity of "all in ones", and the peculiarities of them may have driven Microsoft to it's decision, in order to eliminate a support nightmare. "JLC60" <JLC60@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0EACC8A4-5B56-428F-9F9D-71C8F7431935@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: Adding Fax to Vista Home Premium? Chuck wrote:
not doubt the support nightmare I do strongly doubt that the root of its cause is meaningfully tied to the popularity of "all in ones". If there is a developer at Microsoft actively developing fax protocol for Class 1 and Class 2.0 fax modems (or even just actively developing other Fax Service features) I would very much like to hear from you. Thanks, Lee. -- *Lee Howard* *Mainpine, Inc. Support Manager* Tel: +1 866 363 6680 ext 4 | Fax: +1 360 462 8160 lee.howard@xxxxxx | www.mainpine.com ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** | ||||||||||||
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