I have had Windows 7 almost 2 years and everything worked fine, but now i changed to 64 bit version and my canon scanner would just not install, I tried Vista drivers, 64 and 32 bit versions, XP drivers, drivers that weren’t even for my scanner, I also tried all the tricks, compatibility mode, admin mode, manual installation, basically anything I could think of, but in the end I gave up and resigned myself the fact that if I wanted anything scanned I would have to boot into XP.
I recently checked the Windows 7 forums again and noticed a post suggesting something I may have missed, and to my amazement it worked, here are the steps for anyone with a similar problem -
Open device manager locate the scanner device (it probably has a yellow exclamation mark next to it).
Select properties then update driver.
Choose Browse my computer for driver software then Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
Look for Canon Inc. in the manufacturer list, then select CanoScan LiDE 60.
Click next and ignore any warnings about the driver not matching your hardware, that’s it all done your scanner should now work.
Edit: You may need to run ScanGear CS before the drivers will show up, get it from Canon’s US site – ScanGear CS Vista x64
For 32 bit versions of Windows 7 try this tip from CherrySu – “I changed the version of the CanonScan Toolbox from 4.9 to 4.5 and that seemed to solve the problem I was having with the TWAIN source!”
It also worked in Windows server 2008 64bit
Thank you worked perfectly
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