Install the old driver three wonderful recipes in Windows XP system

The development speed of accessories is fast, and the upgrade speed of Windows system is also accelerating. This makes some hardware that is used but has no use value, because the manufacturer does not update the driver in time, it is difficult to use it in the new operating system. So is there any way to make these hardware work in the new operating system without new drivers?

Operating system compatibility method
As we all know, in new operating systems such as WinXP can run some programs in compatibility mode, and some old drivers running in compatibility mode, can make it in the new operating system It has become more stable.

Example: An old F-1210 parallel port CCD scanner that does not support PNP. Look at the Setup configuration file in the driver package and find the following two lines: SOURCE16NAME=F-1210/16 V4.07, SOURCE32NAME=F-1210/32 V4.07. In addition, the F-1210 scanner specification says it supports Windows NT 4.0, which concludes that the driver should support Windows XP with a 32-bit kernel. Then run the driver installation command Setup, then open the AOC scanner F-1210 program group, open the "Compatibility" tab in the "Scanner Utilities" property dialog box, select "Run this program in compatibility mode", and then open The drop-down list selects Windows98/Me and works fine.

Driver Alternative Method
The alternative method is to study the hardware driver similar to the hardware that can be driven in the new operating system, or the similar model and design inheritance hardware, can be This replaces the drivers for the old hardware so that it can run in the new operating system.

Example: The HP DeskJet 200 printer is a product of HP in 1995. The driver for this printer is only Windows 95/98/Me. Although the Windows XP system can detect the DJ200 printer, it always prompts that the driver cannot be found. Open the installation profile of the HP DeskJet 200 V7.1 driver and observe that many of the DLL files are HPDeskJet 400 printers, indicating that there are close relationships between the two drivers, so open the "Add Printer" wizard, which will be called "HP DeskJet400". The Monochrome driver is installed and everything works fine.

Driver Hard Installation
If you only have a Windows 3.X driver, you can use the Windows 98/ME compatible 16-bit program feature to hard load the driver into the system under DOS.

Example: A PII computer has been using the soft sound card integrated with the motherboard, the effect is not good, so in the second-hand market bought an old ISA sound card using the OPTI931 chip, only supports DOS and Windows 3.1, does not support Plug and play.

Then boot the system to a pure DOS environment, then run the Install command in the sound card driver disk, point the driver installation path to the Windows 98 folder. Surprisingly, the computer speakers sounded a pleasant sound after restarting the system. Because this method installs the Windows 3.1 driver and does not conform to the Windows 98 driver specification, although it is hard to install to Windows 98, the device manager There is no sound video and game control at all, and there is no small speaker in the system clock area. But it doesn't matter, because we want sounds after all!