- #NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER INSTALL#
- #NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER UPDATE#
- #NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER DRIVER#
- #NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER SOFTWARE#
It is your duty and responsibility to ensure that you provide customers with fixes and patches to make sure that your products are compatible with OS upgrades. I can only say from this moment on, this attitude has cost you a lifetime customer.
Now I find a rather treasured piece of hardware useless with nothing more helpful than you shrugging it off. I have been a devoted Nikon user for over 20 years, and I never fail to recommend your products to anyone.
The only explanation is a laconic, cavalier comment on your site that 'it is not compatible' and you 'do not plan' to make it compatible. I have just found that my highly expensive Coolscan 5000 is 'not compatible' with Windows 7 at 64 bit. I wonder how many customers they have lost over this. I have just posted the following to Nikon.
#NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER DRIVER#
You can now delete the zip, readme, cat and inf files, they are not needed anymore.ĮDIT: The driver information file is now signed with Axel's VeriSign Class 3 digital certificate, which should remove the warning that was displayed on Windows 8.xīrought to you by the makers of FastPictureViewer Professional, a fast 64-bit image viewer designed for photographers, and the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack, a 64-bit image codec collection extending Windows 7, Vista and XP SP3 with raw format support for 460+ digital camera models, Photoshop PSD, and a number of other image file formats such as TGA, SGI, DDS, Open EXR, HDR and more. The 32-bit Nikon Scan 4 should work fine on Windows 8.1, 8 and 7 64-bit (and Vista) and your scanner should be found and recognized.
#NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER INSTALL#
button to navigate to that folder) and click the Next button.ĥ) Click Install on the Windows Security prompt, then click Close after Windows finished installing the driver.įinally, install Nikon Scan 4.03 normally, but be sure to uncheck both drivers ( LS-4000 / 8000 / 9000 and LS-40 / 50 / 5000) on the Select Drivers page.
#NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER UPDATE#
Windows 8.x users can simply type Device Manager on the start screen, then look under Settings.Ģ) In the Device Manager window, locate the LS-5000 ED scanner (or LS-40 / LS-50) under Other Devices, then right-click the scanner's name and click Update Driver Software.ģ) Click Browse my computer for driver software.Ĥ) Type the name of the folder where you have unzipped the driver files (or use the Browse. Plug the scanner in a free USB port, turn it on and let Windows try, and fail, to find a driver for it, then.ġ) Open the Device Manager (the quickest way is to click the Start button on Windows' taskbar, type Device Manager in the search box, the start menu should soon display the needed entry, click to open). Next, download the last version of Nikon Scan (4.03 at the time of this writing) from the Nikon website, then proceed as follow: sys and nothing executable, and that the relevant files are digitally signed. Unzip the file: you should end up with a readme.txt file, NikonUsbScanners64.cat and NikonUsbScanners64.inf - note that there is no. Get it there and save it to some place on your hard disk, for example in your Documents folder (the actual location is unimportant, just make sure to know where you put it as you'll need to refer to that location later). Interested? Read on.įirst thing first, you need a small file named NikonUsbScanners64.zip, which contains information that will lead Windows to recognize your device as a scanner.
#NIKON COOLSCAN V ED DRIVER SOFTWARE#
All it takes is a little persuasion to make it recognize Nikon USB slide scanners and, from there, Nikon own software - namely the 32-bit Nikon Scan 4.03 - will happily talk to your beloved piece of gear.
Fortunately, thanks to Microsoft, all recent editions of Windows, including 64-bit ones, contains a generic USB scanner driver. Nikon apparently missed the 64-bit computing world, in particular their excellent USB slide scanners (LS-40, LS-50 and LS-5000 ED) are totally unsupported under Windows 8.x 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, and 64-bit Windows Vista.
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