Drivers for Sharp AL-1045 Printer / Copier

Hi,

I had Windows Vista RC2 installed and it worked great. I installed all the
drivers using the XP versions. However, Vista Ultimate refuses to allow me
to do this to install drivers for my Sharp AL-1045 printer copier. There are
no Vista drivers available from the manufacturer but I feel rather deceived
by Microsoft that it worked in the Beta but not in the final release which I
have gone out and bought.

I've tried disabling Driver Signing Enforcement and install the drivers and
the bcdedit command but neither of these work. Is there any way of getting
my printer working in Vista?

I'd be really grateful for your help.

Many thanks!

You also might want to check this out
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa906338.aspx

Well, if you have Vista x64, I don't think there is any way to get your
unsigned drivers to work with Vista. Sorry for the inconvinience.

If you have Vista x86, could you possibly explain what happends when you try
to install a driver in greater details so we could help you?



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Regards,
Yuriy

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"Distorted Vision" <r.patre@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I had Windows Vista RC2 installed and it worked great. I installed all the
> drivers using the XP versions. However, Vista Ultimate refuses to allow me
> to do this to install drivers for my Sharp AL-1045 printer copier. There
> are
> no Vista drivers available from the manufacturer but I feel rather
> deceived
> by Microsoft that it worked in the Beta but not in the final release which
> I
> have gone out and bought.
>
> I've tried disabling Driver Signing Enforcement and install the drivers
> and
> the bcdedit command but neither of these work. Is there any way of getting
> my printer working in Vista?
>
> I'd be really grateful for your help.
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
>