Windows 10 fax and scan not detecting scanner

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On the left hand side, there will be an option to create a power plan. Then scroll down to “ Related settings” and click on Additional power settings. If you are ready to do so, click on the battery icon from the taskbar and then click on Power and sleep settings.

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To try this, you need to have a relatively high level of understanding of how the power settings work in Windows. To do this, you will have to try enabling and disabling different power-saving features until you reach a combination of features where the power cable remains plugged in and the scanner works as well. If you want to keep the power cable plugged in though and don’t want to set your laptop to power saving mode either, then you will need to set up a custom power plan which makes the computer think it’s running on battery.

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(Or you can just remove the power cable when scanning) You can do so by clicking on the battery icon in the taskbar and clicking on Power saver. The easiest way to fix this issue is to put your laptop on power saving mode when scanning. If the problem only occurs for you when your computer’s power cable is plugged in (and not when it’s running on battery) then there are some problems in the USB cable. Some users have also found the problem to have been caused because of the USB power that was going into the scanner. Now run the application and use it to send scanning requests to your scanner.