LS-4000 added by Bob Johnson, Earthbound LightĬlassGUID=,"Nikon STI Software"
scanners.inf - Windows Still Image Setup File scanners.inf for installing Nikon CoolScan on 64-bit Vista My thanks to Steel Chn who did all the hard work. Nikon doesn't support this configuration and I can't be held responsible for how things turn out for you, but it worked for me. While I can't warrant that this will work for everyone, it should.
Windows will want to confirm that you give permission to install the driver, but other than that you only need to click "Next" and "OK" the rest of the way through the installation dialog to complete the process.Ĭongratulations, you should now have a working Nikon CoolScan scanner on your 64-bit Vista computer.
Right-click on your CoolScan scanner in the list and select " Update Driver Software." Select "browse my computer" and navigate to the folder where you put NKScnUSD.dll and scanners.inf. Then open Device Manager by going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and click on Device Manager in the left-hand pane. Make sure your scanner is plugged in and turned on. After installing Nikon Scan 4.03 from Nikon's website you should be able to find it as NKScnUSD.dll on your computer in the " C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Nikon\Driver\Scan1394" folder. If you'd like to do the same, you'll need the scanners.inf file here together with the dll file mentioned previously. It seems progress is indeed possible in spite of Nikon. After giving it a try, my scanner is now happy and working just fine. One reply seemed to confirm my ideas as they were able to get their CoolScan 4000 to work. Nikon released both scanners at the same time with the only real difference being that the LS-8000 could scan up to 6x9 transparencies while the LS-4000 didn't fit anything bigger than 35mm. Looking at what he had done, it seemed likely that I could do the same with my LS-4000 since it was essentially the little brother to the CoolScan 8000. He then went into the regular Windows Device Manager and updated the driver to the one he had just concocted. It seemed as if the author had indeed been on a similar quest to my own and had gotten his LS-8000 to work.Īfter installing the regular Vista 32-bit version of Nikon Scan 4.03, he copied one of the DLL files into a new folder and used Notepad to create his own scanners.inf driver installation file. Eventually I came across a post on entitled " Unoffical Vista X64 driver of LS-8000ED/9000ED for Nikon Scan 4.03" by someone using the moniker "Steel Chn." Despite the slight grammar error in the post's title and the reference to Nikon scanner models I didn't own, I read the post to see where it might lead me. That lead me to spend an evening doing some Google searching to see if anyone else had found an answer to my dilemma. I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of buying VueScan anyway since I already had (and was familiar with) NikonScan.
Ed Hamrick's VueScan works on Vista 圆4 but seemed to still need Nikon drivers which remained out of reach. But I do still have quite a few slides from when I did so dispensing with the scanner all together seemed like an even worse idea.
Keeping my old workstation around just for the sake of a slide scanner seemed a bad option since I haven't even shot film in quite some time now. I guess Nikon feels progress doesn't always have to march on after all. Not even the latest LS-5000 and LS-9000 are supported on 64-bit Windows. Nikon does support Nikon Scan on 32-bit versions of Vista, but not 64-bit.
One stubborn item was my Nikon LS-4000 scanner.
Not only have I been busy reinstalling everything on the new workstation, I've had to figure out what to do about things that don't want to run on Vista. Progress marches on.īut this meant that I now had to deal with what I had put off. As such, I'm working to retire Windows XP and have replaced it with a new quad core 64-bit Vista system. I've had Vista on my laptop for some time now, but had stuck with Windows XP for the computer I do most of my work on in order to avoid compatibility problems with Vista.
Specifically, I'd like to pass on how some Google searching helped me get my Nikon Super CoolScan LS-4000 ED scanner to work on 64-bit Vista. That's what this week's PhotoTips article is about. But sometimes clever people come up with ways to get things to work anyway. Not everything plays nice with Microsoft Vista, especially the 64-bit version. Getting a Nikon Scanner to Run on 64-bit Vista