On 09/26/2014 10:51 PM, Guv Bob wrote:
"philo " wrote in message ...
On 09/24/2014 04:33 PM, Guv Bob wrote:
The one and only reason for my looking at installing Win 7 is that it's impossible to find a new printer that works with anything older than XP. I have bought a couple of "new" ones from Craigs list that will run on Win 2000 and neither one lasted longer than a week.

I'm disappointed I can't find a universal printer driver that will just let me print. Don't need to know how much ink is left or that paper is jammed. Just send the signal to the printer and print it out....




XP drivers very often work fine on Win2k


If the installed does not run, you will need to extract the setup files
and install the printer as you'd normally install H/W

viz: take the "have disk" option and show the installer the extracted files

Thanks, philo, but I'm as dumb as a fence post when it comes to manipulating files. How do I extract setup files -- if that's too involved just ignore....
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There is software available for extracting them.

It /might/ open in Windows if it's actually a zip file though.

You can try renaming the file to end with .zip




Also, you may just plain run the file...even though it will detect the
wrong OS and not install, the files will be extracted to a temporary folder.

Without closing the installer, copy the files elsewhere and use them