I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 RC on my Lenoto T60 laptop and almost everything worked like a charm.
It really is faster than Vista, boots up faster, eats up less memory etc. Most software works just fine, drivers downloaded automatically, but…
But there’s just one small glitch – my Option GT Max has no drivers for it. The 64-bit drivers from Option website also don’t work – I can install them but then modem just replies that it’s currently busy and I cannot make a connection.
Hope it gets solved, I really like my mobile Internet.
I have reinstalled Vista on my primary computer some time ago. I was still missing one device installed – Mustek BearPaw 2400TA Plus – because there are no official drivers for Windows Vista. I’m running a 32-bit Enterprise flavour of Vista, so previously I had the Windows 2000/XP drivers installed with some registry hack and it quite worked. However, when I tried to find that information now, I couldn’t find it anywhere.
Finally, after more than hour of googling, I found a way to do it. I’ll just make a note here for myself or anyone else who would like to do the same trick and find that information faster.
Here we go:
- Download 2000 / XP drivers for your scanner
- Change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ProductName registry key to say “Microsoft Windows 2000″
- Reboot Vista and start it in Safe Mode
- Install the drivers, they should now install fine
- Reboot Vista, start normally. After logging in, it will ask you if you want to use an unsigned driver – agree
That’s it – everything should be working more or less normally. I just tried that and it works for me – this trick should work for all XP / 2000 drivers.
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