Canon Lide 50 Driver For Windows 7

Get your old scanner working with Windows 7 x64Published 16 th October 2011 by & filed under. Last updated 29 th December 2019.In recent months I’ve encountered sev­er­al prob­lems where people have con­tac­ted me ask­ing for help get­ting their USB scan­ners work­ing on new PCs. In each case the new PCs have come with Win­dows 7 x64, and the scan­ners have been USB devices pro­duced by Can­on and Nikon. Both of these ima­ging spe­cial­ists have ser­i­ously dropped the ball on sup­port­ing products, includ­ing some quite expens­ive premi­um kit from not all that long ago.

The 2 most recent devices I’ve had to fix have been a Can­on Cano­Scan LIDE 50, and a Nikon CoolS­can IV ED. The Can­on is a fairly stand­ard flat­bed scan­ner, and the Nikon is a slide scan­ner.1. Addi­tion­al inform­a­tionThe mod­i­fied driver by “DNA” claims to have 4 modi­fic­a­tions1. Inser­tion of Hard­ware ID2. Inser­tion of Device ID3.

Replace­ment of LiDE 60 Col­our Pro­file with cor­rect LiDE 50 ICC file4. I’ve only just noticed these new­er replies, thanks for these. I would still like to exper­i­ment, how­ever after your com­ment on 20 th Sep that you nev­er got the drivers work­ing I chucked my N670u scan­ner (which I bought at a car boot sale this sum­mer for a quid) in a box in the corner of my garden ready to take to the tip when i next go. That tip trip has yet to come, so tech­nic­ally I still have the scan­ner — though I’m not too sure the last 2 months out­side will have been kind to it. If they have then I will have a play with the drivers soon 🙂.

I haven’t got any­where with this in a long time, but recently came back to it. There are some indic­a­tions that the Lide20 might work with a hacked Lide25 driver, although I’m fairly scep­tic­al about the chances of suc­cess. I’ll look at build­ing some new test can­did­ates over the next 2–3 weeks. If any­one has a Lide20 they’re will­ing to test with that would be great. If I can get a lide20 driver going then a N670U should also work with the same hack — i believe it uses the same drivers as the lide20. IsisI’ve tried both of these approaches and neither worked for me so far.The VueS­can worked great as long as I used the scan­ner applic­a­tion that came with it, but it cov­ers all images with water­marks, unless you buy the paid ver­sion, which I can­’t afford.I tried to use Cano­Scan Tool­box with it, but when I choose ‘Save’ and hit Scan, I’m promp­ted to ‘Select Source’ and it dis­plays VueS­can TWAIN 1.0 (32−32).

I click Select, and get an error mes­sage ‘Unable to select TWAIN source’.When I click on Scan‑1, then Scan, it prompts me to ‘Spe­cify a pro­gram where the scanned image is trans­ferred’. Why would I ‘trans­fer’ it to a pro­gram? I have no clue what that means. I simply want to scan and save to my desktop.I found the install­a­tion of DNA very con­fus­ing. I plugged in the scan­ner, extrac­ted the files, and hoped Win­dows would find the driver on its own. No such luck.

I finally loc­ated it, and for a moment it was recog­nized by the sys­tem. I tried Cano­Scan and had the same prob­lems I had with VueS­can. After I unplugged the scan­ner and plugged it back in, the driver was­n’t recog­nized at all any­more.The DNA driver is appar­ently unsigned, so Win­dows 7 64-bit does­n’t seem to like it. The developer at the link you pos­ted said that you have to log on in safe mode every time and turn off some­thing in Win­dows so it will recog­nize it. That’s way too stress­ful to me, espe­cially since Win­dows flashes threat­en­ing popups dis­cour­aging this beha­vi­or.Before all this, I tried to install the Can­on LiDE60 driver, which I’d heard works with LiDE50, but I’m not sure I installed it cor­rectly. I can­’t find it any­where in my sys­tem.Has any­one figured out any oth­er option?

The VueS­can worked great, but the scan­ner soft­ware did­n’t, so maybe there’s some work­around to use only the driver, with some oth­er soft­ware that will recog­nize the driver?Thanx so much for any new insight any­one might have. This is an option Olivi­er but I think its a bit like using a sledge­ham­mer to crack a nut — run­ning a whole vir­tu­al PC just for your scan­ner is quite a lot of hassle espe­cially when you take into account the need to install secur­ity updates for both VMware and the copy of Win­dows XP installed with­in it! You also either need the Pro, Ulti­mate or Enter­prise edi­tions of Win­dows Vista/7/8 or you need a val­id Win­dows XP seri­al num­ber.

Canon Lide 50 Driver For Windows 7 Update

As a last resort it will work but if at all pos­sible it is bet­ter to get the scan­ner work­ing nat­ively in Win­dows 7 which is what this post is focused on. That said — thanks for the link — I’m sure it will be use­ful to any­one that needs the last resort option. For those that don’t have an XP seri­al but DO have Pro­fes­sion­al, Ulti­mate or Enter­prise you can do the same thing via “Win­dows XP Mode” which is avail­able to. TotoDid not “work like a charm” for me. I installed win­dows xp mode and even though my Broth­er mfc6490cw is installed with old drivers and all, it does not work under this vir­tu­al envir­on­ment. XPmode is cum­ber­some, slow as snail, I don´t even get more than 10 fps play­back on my line­test­er.I am a car­toon anim­at­or, I use this A3 scan­ner to scan in my draw­ings. I upgraded to win­dows 7 and even though Broth­er offers a 64 bits driver for the machine, it is not 100% twain com­pat­ible, caus­ing my anim­a­tion soft­ware to freeze when I try to scan in some draw­ings.

I do not recom­mend win­dows XP mode, it´s like going back to win­dows 95 everything is a prob­lem. LupoHey there, thanks for your fast response 🙂It’s being iden­ti­fied as Can­on LiDE20, which in fact used the same drivers as the N670U in former win­dows-ver­sions. It says, that the Scan­ner is work­ing fine.On the first page of prop­er­ties it says:Man­u­fac­turer: not avail­ableMod­el: Cano ScanMod­el­num­ber: not avail­ableCat­egory: Scan­nerDescrip­tion: not avail­ableOn the page “Hard­ware” it says:Man­u­fac­turer: Ham­rick Soft­wareIf I click on Properties-Drivers:Driver­man­u­fac­turer: Ham­rick Soft­wareDriver­d­ate: Driverver­sion: 1.0.0.0On Details it says:Driver­files:C:Windowssystem32driversksthunk.sysC:Windowssystem32drviersusbscan.sysI hope I trans­lated everything right, because my win­dows is in ger­man lan­guage. If not, I hope you under­stand everything I wrote, oth­er­wise feel free to ask, my eng­lish isn’t that good 😉Thanks in for­ward for your help!