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How to Do Everything With Your Scanner- P21: My thanks to the terrifically creative and knowledgeable staff at Osborne, particularly acquisitions editor Megg Bonar and acquisitions coordinator Alissa Larson for their responsiveness and flexibility. Special thanks to technical editor Steve Bain, not only for his insight and attentiveness to accuracy, but also for actively coming up with many ideas for content. | 84 How to Do Everything with Your Scanner Plug and Play The standard today for installing scanners and other peripheral devices to your PC is something called Plug and Play or Plug and Pray as the punsters have dubbed it. Plug and Play is a special proprietary design for Intel expansion boards which are the components that plug into slots inside a PC and allow it to connect to outside devices. The idea behind Plug and Play is that you can add new peripheral devices such as a scanner to your computer without the need to perform any special technical analysis or procedure. It s not always perfect hence the Plug and Pray jibe. The Plug and Play software in your computer automatically searches for new hardware. Then it checks to see if the correct device driver is installed. This feature is useful to know about if you think you might have accidentally uninstalled or corrupted the driver for your scanner or aren t sure you installed it correctly. To activate the Plug and Play feature 1. Click the Start icon on your Windows taskbar and select Settings Control Panel to open the Control Panel dialog box. 2. Click the Add New Hardware icon. This initiates the Add New Hardware wizard. The wizard will search for new hardware which means any hardware a driver is not presently installed for. 3. When prompted select the manufacturer and model number of your scanner. The Add New Hardware wizard will search for the driver on the system or prompt you to enter a disc with the driver. 4. Install the driver disc if necessary and complete the wizard to reinstall your scanner. CHAPTER 4 Install Your Scanner and Inventory Your Hardware 85 Step 4 Check the Status of Your Scanner Most of us experience a small sense of relief when we install a new peripheral such as a scanner or printer and get it to work just right. Scanner manufacturers know this and most of them offer you little breadcrumbs along the installation path. These might include icons that appear on your Windows taskbar and .

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