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Share a Vista 32bit Printer with Windows 7 64bit?
I have a Windows 7 64bit Laptop and I would like to utilise the printer connected to my Vista 32bit Desktop.
Desktop runs Norton 360, Laptop runs McAfee.
Are there any ideas as to what I should do?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Holy cow, Canon sure doesn't make this easy. They insist on wrapping their drivers into an .exe and auto-run installer, which makes it a PITA to simply get at the drivers. The process I had to go though to get those drivers was a bit arcane, so I just decided to do it myself. You should be able to add the drivers now on the Windows 7 machine.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2646037/ip5000xp180usZ.zip
If you feel more comfortable doing it yourself…
Download the drivers (ip5000xp180usZ.exe) and rename the file to ZIP. Now open it and extract/copy the .inf file somewhere. Rename the file back to .exe, run it, and it will extract the drivers and start the installer. Once the installer starts up, go to a folder called:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
In there you’ll now find the expanded versions of the extracted files. Add the .inf we extracted previously into this folder, and zip the entire folder back in another ZIP. Now cancel the installer (we only needed it to extract and expand the drivers).
You now have a complete set of drivers w/ INF.
As I said, an arcane process.
Source(s): tomshardware.com