Guest MSExchange2003Student Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Hi, somebode bought a HP printer and with it was a driver for Win Vista but not XP. She does have XP on her pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to work on XP?
Guest Newbie Coder Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: Will Vista driver work on XP Pro Exchange Student, Can't you just go to the developers website (http://www.hp.com) & download the correct driver for XP? -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) "MSExchange2003Student" <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote in message news:uLlsKThwHHA.4464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi, somebode bought a HP printer and with it was a driver for Win Vista but > not XP. She does have XP on her pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to > work on XP? > >
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: Will Vista driver work on XP Pro "MSExchange2003Student" <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote in message news:uLlsKThwHHA.4464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi, somebode bought a HP printer And the model number is... ? >and with it was a driver for Win Vista but not XP. She does have XP on her >pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to work on XP? No. Get the XP driver from HP, not from anywhere else - unless XP already has the driver. Alternately, return the printer for one that is supported by XP. HTH -pk
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: Will Vista driver work on XP Pro On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:35:35 +0200, "MSExchange2003Student" <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote: > Hi, somebode bought a HP printer and with it was a driver for Win Vista but > not XP. She does have XP on her pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to > work on XP? No. Tell "somebode" to get to the HP web site and download the correct XP driver for her printer. She will probably find it there, but if there is no such driver, she should return the printer and get one supported by XP instead. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Phisherman Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: Will Vista driver work on XP Pro On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:35:35 +0200, "MSExchange2003Student" <exchangestudent@newsgroups.com> wrote: >Hi, somebode bought a HP printer and with it was a driver for Win Vista but >not XP. She does have XP on her pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to >work on XP? > Not necessarily. Probly not a good idea to install a driver on XP that is intended for Vista. Best to use the built-in printer driver supplied with XP, or perhaps better yet download the HP driver and use that. It should be a small file.
Guest Plato Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: Will Vista driver work on XP Pro MSExchange2003Student wrote: > > Hi, somebode bought a HP printer and with it was a driver for Win Vista but > not XP. She does have XP on her pc.Is Vista drivers backward compatible to > work on XP? Try finding XP drivers here: http://www.perfectdrivers.com/ http://www.karlsforums.com/ http://www.driverskit.com/ http://www.driverslab.com/ http://www.techno-world.com/ http://www.totallydrivers.com/ -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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