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Is it the drivers you wish to install or the applications associated with the scanner? Are you seeing 5 instances of the device in device manager?
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Is it the drivers you wish to install or the applications associated with the scanner? Are you seeing 5 instances of the device in device manager?

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No, what is happening is that when I reboot the system, it detects it again, and installs the same device as the next number in the sequence. So, I have the default install, I reboot, that is gone, and now I have scanner1. I reboot, scanner one is gone and now scanner2.<br />
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When I look in the registry, they are all there.<br />
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Only one shows up in the device manager. The greater problem is that I think that the application is only set to reconize the default scanner so it is not working. <br />
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I need to delete all these extra installs and get it back to the base.
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No, what is happening is that when I reboot the system, it detects it again, and installs the same device as the next number in the sequence. So, I have the default install, I reboot, that is gone, and now I have scanner1. I reboot, scanner one is gone and now scanner2.

When I look in the registry, they are all there.

Only one shows up in the device manager. The greater problem is that I think that the application is only set to reconize the default scanner so it is not working.

I need to delete all these extra installs and get it back to the base.

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I have a sacnner than has been installed by my system (Windows XP) 5 times. I want to remove these all so that I have only one install, but I cannot figure out how to do this?
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I have a sacnner than has been installed by my system (Windows XP) 5 times. I want to remove these all so that I have only one install, but I cannot figure out how to do this?

How to remove/uninstall muliple installations of the same scanner?

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