inf file with a text editor (not Word), look for the hardware ID in an early section, adjust it to your exact hardware ID (it appears in two consecutive lines). inf file have to contain the same info in order Windows to match it during install. You can check your hardware ID in the Device Manager, where you would refresh your driver, on the next tab probably called Details (I have Hungarian Windows), by selecting Harddware ID or similar. This is because the hardware ID of my scanner was not exactly the same as stated in the. inf file at driver refreshing stage, Windows told me that no appropriate driver was found (just like previous posters).

If not: in both Win7 & Win8.1 I found that during pointing to the. This is exactly as per the original post. Go to the Device Manager part of Windows, select your scanner (probably it will appear with a yellow sign), refresh the driver by pointing to the extracted. Unzip the downloaded driver (2 steps) as per the original post. Instead of Winrar I used 7zip's context menu item in Total Commander.

The basics are the same, download the driver for Lide 60 from the official Canon website Win7 64 bit driver will work for both Win7 and Win8.1 (don't know about Win10).įor me the Canon toolbox and Winrar were not needed, the image software I use (FastStone - give it a try, it's free and great!) can deal with it, if the driver is correctly installed. One year ago I installed it on Win7 (64 bit) with smaller issues, now in Win 8.1 with major issues - but both can be solved. I just registered to say thank you for the original poster scoutfu for the great tip that brought my Lide 35 scanner back to life! Beside this I want to extend it with additional tricks, because I see it still does not work out of the box for many others (just like me).

Canon lide 60 and windows 10