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 23 June 2022 How to get the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 to Work in Windows 11 Introduction I have had my Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 since, probably, 2009.  It does two-sided black-and-white or color scans with amazing speed.  It requires a bit of dusting sometimes, but has otherwise never given me any trouble. After upgrading to Windows 11, I noticed that my scanner no longer worked.  It still works on my old Win 10 laptop, but not under Windows 11.  Sure enough–The Fujitsu ScanSnap Website confirms, in its laconic fashion, that the software that runs the ScanSnap S1500 is not compatible with Windows 11; No plans to upgrade their drivers at Fujitsu.  Their only recommendation– Get a brand new Fujitsu ScanSnap iX 1600 Versatile Cloud Enabled Document Scanner for Mac or PC, for only $599.95! I am sure I would enjoy a new iX 1600, and since it is being sold for the price of 2 gallons of gas, why not?  But I thought I would try to get Win 11 to run the old scanner...

 Carrots Grow from Carrot Seeds When I was small, my parents subscribed to a children's record service for a while, which regularly sent us 45 RPM records that contained stories read aloud.  While looking for something else entirely, I came across a YouTube video with one of those stories on it-- The Carrot Seed.  Here's a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxLfBSU-9E My brothers and sisters and I were allowed to get these records out whenever we wanted, and play them on the Hi-Fi (family record player) 'all by ourselves.'  I played that record over and over from about 1962 to 1968, and so did my siblings.  It was very scratched and dirty, and probably was eventually broken.  In any event, I had not heard the recording from the early 1970's until it popped up on YouTube in 2022. The recording is pretty much as I remember it-- Oddly, listening to the grit-free, skip-free version, I remember the scratches and skips from the original record....