A friend of mine got a new PC recently. When he got home he setup everything else he had at his desk to the new PC. Of coarse, the new PC had Vista installed, so there were some things he wasn’t familiar with. He asked me one day how to scan a document in Vista. He said he used the software that came with his scanner and it didn’t work. He then proceeded to call the manufacturer of the Printer/scanner he had and the tried with no success.

I asked him did he use the scan wizard that was built into Windows, and he said there is no scan wizard and he had looked.

As you all know, in Windows XP, all you have to do is go to control panel and there is a handy “scan your pictures” wizard that takes away the need to use the scanners proprietary software. He was right, it isn’t in the same spot in Vista. There is a “scanners” selection in the control panel but thats basically for the properties and settings, not the same scan wizard that I’m use to.

I eventually found it, and its easy. Its now called “Windows fax and scan”. For you impatient people, all you have to do is type the word “scan” into the start bar and the link to it will display. If you want to just click away at icons, heres how you would get to it without typing.

Click START

Click ALL PROGRAMS

Then scroll down a little bit and you’ll see it

Simple huh? Yea but some of us don’t know