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Robbie Hatley
Ok, so after working fine for years, today my scanner suddenly
took a dump and stopped working. I wasted hours going
laboriously through pages of worthless troubleshooting
procedures listed by Epson (the manufacturer) to no avail.
I was about ready to chuck the scanner in the trash
(or out the window) when a little birdy on my shoulder
hinted that maybe I should look in my services for
anything related to scanners. I stumbled across a
service I had never payed attention to before, called
"Still Image Service". Somehow it had got set to
"Manual", and "not started". I switched it to "Automatic",
and started it.
Voila, my scanner started working!
Live and learn. Apparently, in Windows 2000,
if the "Sill Image Service" is not running,
SCANNERS WILL NOT WORK, PERIOD.
(Similar to the "Spooler" service if that's not running,
no printing can be done. That's another one I found
out about the hard way some years ago, after hours of
gnashing my teeth and tearing my hair because I couldn't
get any printers to work.)
Can't computers and OSs just "do the right thing"?
No, for PCs, I suppose not that would be Mac. Sigh.
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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf at well dot com
www dot well dot com slant tilde lonewolf slant
took a dump and stopped working. I wasted hours going
laboriously through pages of worthless troubleshooting
procedures listed by Epson (the manufacturer) to no avail.
I was about ready to chuck the scanner in the trash
(or out the window) when a little birdy on my shoulder
hinted that maybe I should look in my services for
anything related to scanners. I stumbled across a
service I had never payed attention to before, called
"Still Image Service". Somehow it had got set to
"Manual", and "not started". I switched it to "Automatic",
and started it.
Voila, my scanner started working!
Live and learn. Apparently, in Windows 2000,
if the "Sill Image Service" is not running,
SCANNERS WILL NOT WORK, PERIOD.
(Similar to the "Spooler" service if that's not running,
no printing can be done. That's another one I found
out about the hard way some years ago, after hours of
gnashing my teeth and tearing my hair because I couldn't
get any printers to work.)
Can't computers and OSs just "do the right thing"?
No, for PCs, I suppose not that would be Mac. Sigh.
--
Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf at well dot com
www dot well dot com slant tilde lonewolf slant