Installing HP DeskScan II 2.3

The following installation instructions apply to both NT 3.51 and NT4.0:

Even when you follow the above steps, problems can occur. For example, oneInternet posting on the CompuServe Forum HPPER said HP DeskScan II 2.3'sinstallation program sometimes displays a dialog for entering the location ofthe Visioneer PaperPort software. According to the user posting the message, youcan ignore this request either by pressing Cancel or by running the installationprogram's setup2.exe program.

Another Internet user reported that HP DeskScan II 2.3's installationprogram thinks it's installing under Windows 3.x, not Windows NT, and thusinstalls Win32S and other Windows 3.x files in the wrong place. Win32S, anApplication Programming Interface (API), is a 32-bit dynamic link library thatWindows 3.x can use to run some 32-bit programs within a 16-bit environment. IfWin32S were successfully loaded into NT, it could cause some major conflicts.

The user's solution was to modify the hpsetup.ini file on the HP DeskScaninstallation disks. There are two important blocks on this file, in the [Win3.1]and [WinNT] sections, respectively. The user copied the [WinNT] block over the[Win3.1] block to make the two blocks identical. Both blocks then look like thefollowing:

Thus, the installation program still thinks it's working with Windows 3.xbecause one block's heading still says Win3.1, but the new block fools it intoloading the appropriate files in the right directories. (For more informationabout online sources of information for HP ScanJet and other scanners, see "OnlineInformation Sources.")