I found out what "still image service" is, the hard way.

Ok, so after working fine for years, today my scanner suddenly

took a dump and stopped working. I wasted hours going

laboriously through pages of worthless troubleshooting

procedures listed by Epson (the manufacturer) to no avail.

I was about ready to chuck the scanner in the trash

(or out the window) when a little birdy on my shoulder

hinted that maybe I should look in my services for

anything related to scanners. I stumbled across a

service I had never payed attention to before, called

"Still Image Service". Somehow it had got set to

"Manual", and "not started". I switched it to "Automatic",

and started it.

Voila, my scanner started working!

Live and learn. Apparently, in Windows 2000,

if the "Sill Image Service" is not running,

SCANNERS WILL NOT WORK, PERIOD.

(Similar to the "Spooler" service if that's not running,

no printing can be done. That's another one I found

out about the hard way some years ago, after hours of

gnashing my teeth and tearing my hair because I couldn't

get any printers to work.)

Can't computers and OSs just "do the right thing"?

No, for PCs, I suppose not that would be Mac. Sigh.

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Cheers,

Robbie Hatley

lonewolf at well dot com

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