Programs don't recognize Scanner in XP

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In Device Manager, View, Show Hidden, Then remove all instances and
reinstall.

RAS wrote:

> I have an HP 6250 Scanjet that worked fine then after something happened and
> the scanner is no longer recognized by any program or microsoft's paint
> program that comes with XP. The driver is the default driver setup by XP and
> when I go into the Device Manager and run the diagnostics on the scanner it
> works just fine; It's just that no program recognizes that there is a
> scanner. The driver listed as "Hewlett-Packard 6200 C #3" indicates that
> this is the third driver for the scanner. However there are no other drivers
> listed or installed. It should not have the #3 after the name of the driver.
> I'm not sure if this is a problem but all my scanner programs state that
> there is "no scanner" attached to the computer. The scanner is attached by a
> USB 2.0 Port and I have connected it to several ports with no change. When
> I delete the driver and reboot the machine XP recognizes the scanner and
> automatically installs the driver always as #3. Any Ideas on how to
> eliminate an phanthom drivers or how to fix the problem?
>