Windows Image Acquisition

[44Bear]

Hey Guys, I'll try to make this simple.
I have a cheapo web camera and the device drivers have a tendency to go berserk once in a while, overtaking files or just screwing with me. It's the gtcodec.dll. Simply uninstalling and reinstalling works for a while.
And I also have a twain scanner that is not compatable with Windows Xp Pro. Now that I've reinstalled the twain drivers (scanner) and the gtcodec.dll (web camera)everything works fine. As long as I don't reboot or shutdown the pc, all my software/apps recognize both devices and integrates well. I think I need to register these devices with Windows Image Acquisition manually for them to be recognized with XP Pro. The Windows Image Acquisition Library v2.0 is way over my head. Is there a third party application available that will do this? Any thoughts on this will be appreciated.
thanks....

 

[bcastner]

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[44Bear]

The registry looks ok.
From the setup log: Scanner driver install relies on taskbridge 98. I know from experience that taskbridge 98 will not work on XP. That's not an option.
The Windows Image Acquisition Library v2.0 (SDK) did over ride the install by using pmxscan.inf file from what I can tell. The registry has one discrepency though:
Value 6
Name: InfSection
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Samp
And the pmxscan.inf has the following lines:
[Models]
; Replace PnPIDINformation with the hardware ID generated by your
; device for PnP identification
%ProductDesc% = Samp, USB\VID_0461&PID_0363
%ProductDesc% = Samp, USB\VID_0461&PID_0347
%ProductDesc% = Samp, USB\VID_0461&PID_0346
%ProductDesc% = Samp, USB\VID_04A7&PID_0224
And the registry follows:
Value 9
Name: MatchingDeviceId
Type: REG_SZ
Data: usb\vid_04a7&pid_0224
Is this right? How do I follow thru on this?
Thanks.........