Bluetooth in my laptop LT420Si is not showing

You'll need an installation disk, but why would you want to invest the time and effort with Vista. Upgrade to Win7 instead (stay away from 8).

Same Driver will not work for win7 64 bit even if you share the printer it needs the driver for win7 64.
You will have to download the driver for win7 64bit and install in that system.
http://www8.hp.com/in/en/support-drivers.html

You need the Win7 camera driver, check sony support at:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGNCR220E&SelectOS=44

just enter your Win7 operating system (there are 9 versions of Win7), and select the downloads (2)
for your computer camera driver.

Versions of microsoft Win7 - determine which yours is by (these instructions are for WinXP);

START > Control Panel > System > General (tab)

Windows 7 Home Basic 32-bit
Windows 7 Home Basic 64-bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Windows 7 Starter 32-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

ASUS Windows 7 64 bit drivers at
http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=U52F&p=3&s=264&os=30&hashedid=n/a

Do you have Win7 32-bit or 64-bit? If you have the 32-bit, the driver you need is here: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/scanners/canoscan_series/canoscan_lide_80#DriversAndSoftware . This driver works for Win2K-Win7. This is an unsigned driver and probably will not work in Win7 64-bit.

In my experience, Canon is very poor at supporting their scanners for 64-bit OS versions. In fact, they do not have a Vista 64-bit compatible version of the drivers for this scanner.

The only solutions I have found are tedious. 1) Keep your old computer that works with the scanner and transfer files on a USB drive or optical disc (RW is better for this). 2) Set up a virtual computer with an OS that works with the scanner. If you have Win7 Pro or Ultimate, you can do this for free. Download Microsoft's Virtual PC and the XP mode package. Install both in order. For other versions of Win7, you will need a virtualization program (Parallels, Virtual PC, VMWare) and a licensed version of XP (or other OS that will work with the scanner). Set up the virtual computer program and install the OS.

Next install your scanner to the virtual computer and use it in that "machine". You may need to transfer files to external or optical media to share the documents. You can't install a printer on both the virtual computer and the real computer at the same time (at least with XP mode).

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(I tried using the compatibility mode and accepting the unsigned driver for a Win7 Home Premium 64-bit machine for a different Canon scanner. It didn't work and I have dealt with a number of old hardware and new OS issues over time.)

Do you have the 64-bit version of Win7? The compatibility for the 64-bit Win7 is listed as unknown.

The camera should be plug and play under 32-bit Win7 (according to the Microsoft Compatibility Center). Unfortunately, the 64-bit OS requires signed drivers and the 32-bit OS doesn't so you can't just substitute the drivers. If you have 32-bit Win7, then the problem may be a bad cable or port.

I wish that I could be of more help.

Cindy Wells

Hi

Thank you for your query

Yes you can run any 64bit operating system on here i.e. windows home, professional and ultimate Xp/7

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Turbo C Was A 16 bit application Which Don't Work On a 64 Bit Os And You Confirmed that Dosbox Or Virtual Pc Isn't Work For You!!
The Only hope Was to Use Windows XP Mode For It!!
If Not Then There is No Hope!!

Hi,

Thanks for using Fixya.

Wow, 16gigs of RAM... thats alot!
Well, for you to be able to get full use of your 16gigs ram. You need to be using a 64BIT OS. Windows Vista and Windows 7 has 64bit versions. The main problem that you will encounter with using 64bit OS is driver compatibility with your devices. Hopefully all your components have 64bit drivers. I hope this helps.

Thanks and have a nice day.

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