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Windows 7 Device Experience - How to get it working?


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Hey all,

I am currently working on getting one of our printers to support the new Windows 7 Device Experience.

I have managed to get a photo realistic printer icon to show on "Devices and Printers" but unable to get the extended experience working (where double clicking the icon opens detailed information about the device including links etc.).

Anyone been working on something similar can can lend a hand?

Thanks.

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Hey all,

I am currently working on getting one of our printers to support the new Windows 7 Device Experience.

I have managed to get a photo realistic printer icon to show on "Devices and Printers" but unable to get the extended experience working (where double clicking the icon opens detailed information about the device including links etc.).

Anyone been working on something similar can can lend a hand?

Thanks.

the device has to support Device stage in order for it to work like that What printer do you have you are using. Ms has a site of listed device that do support it tho it is from the beta so take a look here and post back your results

Edit: seems they took it down but chances are your device does not support it at this time oh and just so ya know your system could handle the 64bit version of windows 7 if you wanted as i noticed your running the 32bit version

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if you are a hardware manufacterer I would guess you have support tickets with Microsoft for these kind of questions?

I have no idea, been a long time since I wrote drivers and device software, so can't help you :)

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Thanks for the replies, its not a driver issue. Device Stage is a package of XML files that describe how the device interacts with Window s7 Devices and Printers, the support of devices listed are ones that are supported in-box. IHV can supply their own Device Metadata package to get include during the WHQL process, any printer can support it.

Regarding Microsoft support, yes, we have a communication path but it does take time and was just wondering if there are others out in the real work working on this too.

Regarding my PC, yes I know it supprts 64Bit but I don't see a need to use it, I only have 2GB and everything runs great.

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