So he bought a new scanner/copier. Tried to set it up. And it won't work. He thinks . . . the software on the computer is interfering with the scanner. So he has to uninstall everything. Again.

I lot depends on the other software, I'm afraid -- at one point some pdf support programs/coding could mess things up .. and I had a perfectly good scanner stop working on me because Miscrosoft upgraded something automatically -- something that *could not be uninstalled* ... they of course insisted it was all fixed in Vista, but then I'd need more memory and etc.

Good luck with all.