Any Way to Stop Canon Scanner From Starting at XP Startup?

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I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner and every time I start Windows
XP SP3 the scanner also starts and makes various noises. Is there any
way I can stop the scanner from starting automatically? I've looked
in MSCONFIG and didn't see anything that looked related and couldn't
find anything anywhere else. All suggestions welcome. Thanks for any
help.
 
nr wrote:
:: I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner and every time I start
:: Windows XP SP3 the scanner also starts and makes various noises. Is
:: there any way I can stop the scanner from starting automatically?
:: I've looked in MSCONFIG and didn't see anything that looked related
:: and couldn't find anything anywhere else. All suggestions welcome.
:: Thanks for any help.


Suggestion:
Turn it off / unplug it.
If its powered on / standby, Windows probably detects it at start up.

Just a thought.

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nr wrote:

:: I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner and every time I start
:: Windows XP SP3 the scanner also starts and makes various noises. Is
:: there any way I can stop the scanner from starting automatically?
:: I've looked in MSCONFIG and didn't see anything that looked related
:: and couldn't find anything anywhere else. All suggestions welcome.
:: Thanks for any help.

Suggestion:
Turn it off / unplug it.
If its powered on / standby, Windows probably detects it at start up.

Just a thought.

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Thank you for your quick reply. The scanner is powered by it's USB
connection and doesn't have an on/off switch; essentially it is off
when I start up Windows XP. I was hoping for a software item to
delete/modify to correct this.
 
Hi ,

Unplug the Canon from the USB port. When you need to scan something in,
like a bill or letter, just plug the Canon back into the USB port. Very
simple and it does not hurt to keep the USB devices unplugged until needed
by you.
 
nr said:
I have a Canon CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner and every time I start Windows
XP SP3 the scanner also starts and makes various noises. Is there any
way I can stop the scanner from starting automatically? I've looked
in MSCONFIG and didn't see anything that looked related and couldn't
find anything anywhere else. All suggestions welcome. Thanks for any
help.
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It does this by design. If you elect to unplug it until needed, it will go
through its calibration process each time you use it..


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hi,

My scanner (Canon LiDE 25) started to misbehave one day - when the PC would be turned on, and the scanner would start and then scan (nothing!) until the scanning arm got to the end of the flatbed and then wouldn't stop... it just kept making this nasty mechanical noise, and in the end it would have to be unplugged. Unplugging it and then plugging it back in again a few times seemed to solve the problem. When the scanning arm settled at the origin of the flatbed and STOPPED, it would be obvious that the problem was sorted for that iteration of unplugging and plugging.
This problem has gone on for some time now. Funnily enough, and as a side comment, my previous scanner (the one that I threw away because I thought it was broken) demonstrated exactly the same problem. So, I buy a new scanner, and lo and behold it starts doing the same thing.
Then... one day, I realised what the problem was. My scanner has been plugged into a high speed USB 2 hub, and so have a number of other devices (external hard drive, printer etc).. and one day I decided to plug it DIRECTLY into the USB port of the PC (rather than into the hub)... and I can't reproduce the problem, at all.
When presenting Canon with this problem, they blamed the Operating System and said that extraneous commands were coming from the OS to start the scanning process. My suggestion is that it just doesn't like being plugged into a hub (not quite sure why - you'd have to ask a hardware engineer that).

Good luck... and happy scanning.
Michael Haig.
 
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