use of HP scanner as restricted user

From: philip (1@2)
Date: 12/31/02 

From: "philip" <1@2>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 07:36:44 -0800

Doesn't look very promising. I can still return the
gear. Is that an HP specific problem? Does anyone have
experience with a brand that works more fluent with XP ?

Philip

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm afraid it's way too difficult to do that without
some
>real good expertice help. I myself own the HP ScanJet
>3200C scanner (it's a very bad scanner btw) and it have
>caused me nothing but trouble really. The support seem
to
>be crap for older product like these (I personally think
>Hewlett Packard are idiots for not being able to make a
>simple driver to work properly in XP) and the lack of
>documentation has also been a really disturbing issue
for
>me. (I guess they are cutting away the customer service
>these days).
>
>Anyway, the only thing I can suggest really is to make
>changes to the security level of each usergroup (Control
>Panel > Admin tools > Computer Management > User and
>Groups) and simply add the users you want to have access
>to the scanner to the Administrator group, although they
>will gain some unwanted access to certain aspects that
>way...
>
>Just remember to still keep them in the Restricted User
>group though, at least that'll apply SOME restrictions.
>Well, it's either that or buying a new scanner I guess.
If
>you manage to find another option I would be happy to
know
>aswell.
>
>Cheers.
>/chilly
>
>
>.
>

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