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I have a cannon canoscan scanner and windows 7 pro.

When I press the scan button on the scanner I get a choose program dialog. My 2 choices are Photoshop and Picasa. I want to add other programs, like Irfanview and plain old windows paint, how can I do this?

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This is NOT the autoplay handler, it is the event handler. Go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers.

Pick your scanner and right click Scan Properties, click on the Events tab and you should be able to change the setting.

For epson scanners go here

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My only option is take no action. – Ronnie Overby Dec 23 '11 at 14:31
I spent hours searching and thought that would help. Maybe you could try to uninstall the scanner software, unplug the device and then reinstall the software and plug in USB device. If you still don't see option such as start this program or prompt for action then reinstall winows?? Thanks for reading. – equalizer Dec 23 '11 at 18:25
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These are called autoplay handlers. You can configure them with TweakUI under My Computer -> Autoplay -> Handlers.

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TweakUI does not work on Windows 7, does it? – Snark Mar 14 '10 at 13:36
@snark thewindowsclub.com/… – John T Mar 14 '10 at 20:34
OK, thanks. This is not the "official" MS TweakUI. – Snark Mar 14 '10 at 21:07
John's first link is for XP – Moab Jul 9 '10 at 13:54
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I've had several scanners and it never occurred to me to use the hardware buttons on any of them. Just open the program of your choice and select File/Import (Or Acquire).

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Yes that's what I always do, but I'd like to not be bothered every time my wife or 6 year old son need to scan something :) – Ronnie Overby Dec 23 '11 at 14:30
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