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Thank you! &nbsp;It was a little bit painful, but with some effort I was able to get that method to work!
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Thank you!  It was a little bit painful, but with some effort I was able to get that method to work!

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I run Windows Server 2003 on one of my machines. &nbsp;Once in a while I will encounter a manufacturer that wants to be an ass and does and their software does an OS check when installing, and then insists the OS is not compatible, even though it should be. &nbsp;In this case a HP printer which has drivers for XP, Vista and Windows 7. &nbsp;Which means even if it is not officially certified it should run fine on 2003 server.<br />
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Is there any way to trick the installation software into thinking this is an XP machine so I can install the driver and use my printer? &nbsp;I am willing to risk that it may be buggy, if it is I'll just uninstall it.<br />
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Thank You
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I run Windows Server 2003 on one of my machines.  Once in a while I will encounter a manufacturer that wants to be an ass and does and their software does an OS check when installing, and then insists the OS is not compatible, even though it should be.  In this case a HP printer which has drivers for XP, Vista and Windows 7.  Which means even if it is not officially certified it should run fine on 2003 server.

Is there any way to trick the installation software into thinking this is an XP machine so I can install the driver and use my printer?  I am willing to risk that it may be buggy, if it is I'll just uninstall it.

Thank You

Force Installation on &quot;Incompatible OS&quot;

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Force Installation on &quot;Incompatible OS&quot;

Force Installation on "Incompatible OS"