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Ever since I've been using Vista, my scanner wouldn't work because of the Vista drivers issue, so on Saturday I bought a new Lexmark 1200 with scan, copy and fax capabilities. It installed beautifully in XP, but Vista was a horror story that has taken me two days to solve.

After reading every post on the net that I could find, I eventually got the printer to work properly, with the All-In-One Center working perfectly.

I was getting the AIOC stopped working problem until I did the following:

1. Disconnect the USB Cable.
2. Uninstall using the disk (verify no leftover program group)
3. Go to the location C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
4. Clean out all the files that start with lxbx
5. Empty Recyle Bin.
6. Reboot PC

Before reinstalling the software I downloaded a fix from the Lexmark site to clean out the registry properly. All those installs had created a ton of registry entries. Download the four files in the reg folder, and follow the text instructions. After you reboot, you're able to install correctly and everything should work.

Install the vista driver only plugging in the USB cable when prompted by the software.

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I couldn't resist! The price was fantastic, under $300 AU and the size blew me away. This very sleek looking external hard drive is the perfect backup solution. I have just under 1 TB in 3 drives on my computer, but was running out of space with all the movies on the system. I had movie folders eating up the space on every drive, so I transferred the lot (over 80) to the My Book and still had plenty of room to do a backup of my XP install, and using Acronis True Image I've set it up to do daily incremental backups. I'll do something similar with the Vista install.

The My Book is a Western Digital hard drive that connects with USB. Installation is a snap because you don't really install this drive, you just plug it in and it's ready to use.

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