PROBLEMCHYLD Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 (edited) ? Edited September 25, 2011 by PROBLEMCHYLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 This would involve some work + testing with ME system files, eventually modding INF +/- HTA files and probably some registry tweaking.But unfortunately I don't have a scanner or a digital camera, so I can't test this [yet]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsycoUnc Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ? which "ME" scanner & camera features are u talking about, which win98se doesn't have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBLEMCHYLD Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) ? Edited September 25, 2011 by PROBLEMCHYLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) Don't scanners and cameras come with their own drivers already? Edited February 20, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ? which "ME" scanner & camera features are u talking about, which win98se doesn't have?It's more or less the same as in XP. You should just be able to plug your USB image acquisition device and Windows should recognize it automatically without needing to install specific drivers for those devices.It's just a few files : stimon.exe, stimon.dll and all the WIAsomething.dllI have removed that component from my system because I found it to interfere negatively with the proper operation of the OS. Basically stimon.exe would get frequently loaded as a background task for no apparent reason and would considerably slow down the OS from those moments on and after a while I got fed up to constantly have to kill that task.Maybe the reason was because I have an old scanner that's always plugged on the serial port.It would be interesting to know if other ME users with a different hardware setup are experiencing problems with this component. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) Don't scanners and cameras come with their own drivers already?LLXX, what PROBLEMCHYLD meant is the "Scanners and Cameras" control panel applet. Edited February 20, 2006 by erpdude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsycoUnc Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) -eidenk, yes, STIMON was always a major headache and had to be constantly killed, when we were running winME... getting rid of it improved performance/stability BIG time... Edited February 20, 2006 by PsycoUnc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpdude8 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 -eidenk, yes, STIMON was always a major headache and had to be constantly killed, when we were running winME... getting rid of it improved performance/stability BIG time...I used to have problems with STIMON under ME but not anymore. un-installed my HP scanner software, deleted the HP scanner registry entries that were left over and re-installed the software. have not had a problem since then.Microsoft has noted a problem with STIMON causing an invalid page fault in support KB article 306393:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306393/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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