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| Printing, Faxing and Scanning with Vista A forum for using printers, scanners and fx with Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan) |
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I have an HP 1200 laser. Works like a champ when hooked up to Vista RC1
x64. Works like a champ when hooked up to XP SP2. But I want to have it hooked up to XP (32-bit) and share it so that I can use it on Vista (64-bit) and one of my other XP systems at home. How do I do this? I can see where to add x64 drivers in XP, but I can't tell how to actually do that! It asks for the driver locations, but I can't actually find them. Are the drivers buried in some sub-directory of the Vista x64 disk? Any help is appreciated! - Dennis |
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That is easy.
You will need to point to the x64 Vista installation (you can't extract them off the disk). \windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\prnhp 001.inf Easy!? -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "denj" wrote in message ... I have an HP 1200 laser. Works like a champ when hooked up to Vista RC1 x64. Works like a champ when hooked up to XP SP2. But I want to have it hooked up to XP (32-bit) and share it so that I can use it on Vista (64-bit) and one of my other XP systems at home. How do I do this? I can see where to add x64 drivers in XP, but I can't tell how to actually do that! It asks for the driver locations, but I can't actually find them. Are the drivers buried in some sub-directory of the Vista x64 disk? Any help is appreciated! - Dennis |
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Dumb question,
Where are you trying to install the 64bit drivers? if it's on the xp box, you might have a problem with getting it to recognize the install path metioned unless you actually go in and Share that Particular folder on the network. Otherwise XP won't be able to see and hence won't connect to that folder. Easiet way to get the drivers into xp is download them to the XP machine direct from HP, then when it asks where the drivers are you just have to point to the local inf file rather than trying find it on the network. "Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote: That is easy. You will need to point to the x64 Vista installation (you can't extract them off the disk). \windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\prnhp 001.inf Easy!? -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "denj" wrote in message ... I have an HP 1200 laser. Works like a champ when hooked up to Vista RC1 x64. Works like a champ when hooked up to XP SP2. But I want to have it hooked up to XP (32-bit) and share it so that I can use it on Vista (64-bit) and one of my other XP systems at home. How do I do this? I can see where to add x64 drivers in XP, but I can't tell how to actually do that! It asks for the driver locations, but I can't actually find them. Are the drivers buried in some sub-directory of the Vista x64 disk? Any help is appreciated! - Dennis |
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