Couple days ago one of my friends called me and asked me about the possibility to use and old version of drivers of an Old scanner BENQ that were designed for at most Windows XP, I actually kept on searching to see a solution for this problem finally I came across some results:
Since he was asking about anything that might help in using this Scanner on Windows 7, I found a pretty good software called "VueScan", this software is designed for that purpose, which is to use with the old pieces of Scanners that are not anymore supported by new Operation Systems, or their drivers are not available by the manufacturer anymore. For sure it's not for free, but it worth a shot. Here's the link "http://www.hamrick.com/#download".
As it's mentioned in description of the Software "VueScan is an easy-to-use replacement for the software that came with your scanner and supports most flatbed scanners, printer/scanners and film scanners. Over 10 million people have downloaded VueScan since it was first released in 1998. Whether you are looking for more advanced features that your scanner vendor doesn't provide, or your scanner vendor no longer supports your scanner, VueScan 9 helps you get the most out of your scanner"
The second Solution is more practical and I guess it's also helpful just in case if you want to use any hardware that that's not simply a Scanner. It's the "Compatibility" mode"....Just as shown in the Right side Picture.
This option can be applied to any EXE files, Setup files for example. So if you have the Installation drivers of specific hardware, you can apply this settings to the Setup.exe or Install.exe or what ever the file is called.
You can also do that with any application that you have a problem with getting it run in Windows 7 or Vista. Games for example.
You can also go to this Link to know more about that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows
Here's another Video shows how to use compatibility mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtC1F3IbPO8
The third solution is the Best and the easiest one, Can you guess it??
Yea, that's right....INSTALL WINDOWS XP LOL :D
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