Hello,

I'm having a strange problem that has come up on a Windows XP Home
with SP2. It has a TWAIN scanner connected to USB. It comes up with
a TWAIN error (General failure. Source immediately unloaded.) This
error happens when the twain scanning applet is called from another
program. If I run the program at the command line it functions
perfectly. Nothing that I know of has been changed on the computer. I
tried System Restore to go back a few days, but that didn't fix the
problem. It seems to be a Windows issue with the way external
programs are run and the resources available to them.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the scanner driver, but that didn't
seem to help.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike

 

I suggest going to the
scanners home site
and download any updates
they have available.

they usually have their
proprietary software for
use with the scanner.

so I would download the
entire package they have
provided for their scanner.

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"eljainc" <eljainc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:030fa2dc-61f4-49b9-8646-4aacdc97f96d@19g2000yqu.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a strange problem that has come up on a Windows XP Home
> with SP2. It has a TWAIN scanner connected to USB. It comes up with
> a TWAIN error (General failure. Source immediately unloaded.) This
> error happens when the twain scanning applet is called from another
> program. If I run the program at the command line it functions
> perfectly. Nothing that I know of has been changed on the computer. I
> tried System Restore to go back a few days, but that didn't fix the
> problem. It seems to be a Windows issue with the way external
> programs are run and the resources available to them.
>
> I tried to uninstall and reinstall the scanner driver, but that didn't
> seem to help.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Mike