vs355u.exe

"Driver worked great, but you have to make sure to install the "2xxxupdater.exe" patch, also available from this website for download at the following url: "http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=87754".

It seems like this driver (vs355u.exe) is located in two different places on this website, and at the other location BaconHedd gave the following advice to install the drivers which worked great for me:

"THIS UPDATER WORKS FINE! *HOWEVER* - NOTE THAT YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THE *CORE* VISTASCAN 3.55 DRIVERS AND INSTALL THEM *FIRST*! THE CORE DRIVERS FILE IS NAMED "vs355u.exe",THANKFULLY SUBMITTED BY "camr" (ALSO LOCATED ON THIS DRIVER SITE)! HERE IS AN INSTALL NOTE FOR YOU ALL VISTASCAN v3.55 USB FOR WIN XP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [INSTALL ] 1. LET WIN XP INSTALL IT'S OWN DRIVERS FOR THE ASTRA 1220U SCANNER. 2. THEN RUN "vs355u.exe" AND INSTALL. THE INSTALLER WILL MAKE MENTION OF "SCSI" CARDS,DEVICES,ETC. IGNORE THIS, -IT'S OK. 3. *NOW* - RUN "2xxxupdater.exe", AND IT WILL INSTALL AND PATCH THE DRIVERS TO RUN PROPERLY, AND TO FUNCTION WITH THE USB INTERFACE. MUCH THANKS TO "sibby" FOR THIS UPDATER PATCH!!! (AND MUCH BOOS AND HISSES TO "UMAX" FOR REQUIRING IT'S COSTOMERS TO *PAY* FOR DRIVER UPDATES!!!!!) -----------THANKS ALL!!-------------""

"I would have to think that the people who did not get this driver to work for them didn't have a Astra 1220 usb model, or they didn't download the updater exe file to this driver. Although there are always exceptions when it comes to computers. I loaded this program onto my desktop closed my internet connection and then ran the file. Then I rebooted. For some reason this file didn't include the updater program so I located the person who so thoughtfully wrote the location for it and pasted it into my address window and then down loaded it "as above" rebooted and the rest was history. Very easy and very cool. I'm a happy camper"

"Brilliant! I thought I'd lost the 1220U interface for good and would have to make do with the Windows XP weak substitute. Even Umax told me I'd have to buy a new scanner. But this update worked precisely as if the scanner was new out of its box. As mentioned by other people above, it is necessary to download 2xxxupdater file as well. To install Turn on your scanner. Install vs355u.exe first, then 2xxxupdater, and reboot the computer."

"This driver works great, you can also download this driver along with the 2xxx file for free from the UMAX german site. Go to a translation engine such as babelfish.altavista.com and then go to www.umax.de/support/treiber.htm and choose the scanner from the list there. When you get to the download page, the page is in both German and English (at the bottom of the page)."

"Touse with a pc upgraded from Windows 98 to XP, use the 'custom' install and take only the twain driver, THEN use the XP patch file '2xxxupdater' to get full functions of original vs 3.0, including 'power saver' to allow the scanner bulb to go off after periods of non-use... otherwise, if you use standard install of 3.55, power saver doesn't seem to be available."