Hi John Getzke,
From what you say either the HP driver installer is clearly generating nonsense, or there is something wrong with my proven and working operating system installation (XP by the way, not W8).
I am influenced more by the evidence toward your former conclusion than the latter. I must agree with you therefore that this HP installer is of no value to me whatsoever in that it fails to load HP drivers (surely a relatively simple task?)
And on this basis, is it wise to entrust it to load other HP models drivers - other than, I may have no other option?
Should I wish to load complex huge HP software systems such as Director onto my computer then the installer is fine. However, one wonders about the value of this when the HP drivers do not work? Does this suggest also, for instance, that there will be a corner of the HP software (well suite of rooms perhaps rather than a corner) where equally poor HP software performance will be in evidence?
Now, I do not have problems printing with and reloading drivers for other manufacturers printers. In addition, using other methods (not the HP installer, but simply copying appropriate files and registry editing) I can get the HP 1317 to print. (However, in moving modules about in this way, might I be in breach of some small print somewhere, possibly?)
This working printer driver system is undermined (removed) when I reinstall the HP stuff - not good surely, and indicative of a poor to lamentably poor, and possibly malicious, system?
However, recall I am trying to load the HP 1317 scanner driver. I am not too concerned that the HP printer driver does not work. And, I am prepared to put up with the burthensome extra software. But how do I achieve this? I am keen not to ditch the excellent HP 1317 scanner subsystem hardware, nor the XP software installation quite yet - just to get a driver to work.
Is there not an HP scan driver expert out there that can tell me the files/procedures I need to load to achieve, this and to where, and the changes to the registry and othe locations that are required with some indication of the care that may be necessary in some stages of this operation?
Kind regards - BM9