Problemas com o FAX no Windows Vista Home

Para completar a BELA MERDA que foi windows vista, ainda tiraram o recurso de FAX (das impressoras) para se enviar e receber faxes pelo fax-modem em linha telefônica comum.

Para se resolver este problema está difícil. Diversos links na internet prometem, porém tá difícil um programa freeware ou crackeado que consiga instalar o fax no spool das impressoras do vista.

Por isso seguem diversas informações até agora inúteis.

Antes, comunico que a única opção foi o VENTAFAX 6.0 - ELE REALMENTE FUNCIONA!!!!

instala direitinho, está nas impressoras e ainda possui funções voice. Porém ainda não consegui uma versão free, ou serial ou crack. Só aqueles sites que prometem mas nao cumprem.

Por isso, quando conseguir resolver, coloco a disposição.

Se alguém conseguir o crack, envie para: viagema@itelefonica.com.br

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As funções de fax e digitalização são apresentadas em conjunto no Windows Vista através do Windows Fax and Scan. O envio e a recepção de faxes através do computador é agora tão simples como realizar as mesmas tarefas num aparelho de fax, em especial no que se refere a documentos digitais.

Hoje começo a minha segunda semana com o Windows Vista, pensei em instalar um fax para ele. Olhei para o gabinete e percebi que eu não tenho uma porta para a linha telefônica, ou seja, o meu gabinete não tem um modem embutido. Foi aí que lembrei que eu tenho um velho modem externo da Genius, conectado através da USB. Não demorou quinze minutos e o Vista instalou o driver do modem. Então, pensei que a instalação do Windows Fax iria ser bem mais fácil.

E advinha só, não achei. Fui na www.microsoft.com para saber o que aconteceu com o fax, uma vez que a tela de ajuda não falava absolutamente nada sobre o assunto. Lá, descobri que o fax só está disponível para o Windows Vista Enterprise, Ultimatum e o Business.

Ou seja, mal paguei a minha primeira parcela de dez prestações lá no Fnac, e descobri que comprei a versão errada do Windows Vista.

Desesperado, fui na tela de suporte da www.microsoft.com.br, e tentei perguntar se poderia atualizar o Vista Premium para o Business, ele pediu o número de identificação, e me informou que não há suporte no país onde adquiri tal licença, e, se houvesse, precisaria pagar 99 dólares para ser atendido em apenas um dia útil.

É chato, muito chato. Hoje estou triste.

alguém sabe qual versão do Windows Vista tem o software do fax. Se não tiver um nenhuma alguém sabe me dizer como colocar o do Xp nele!

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Fax apenas na versão Ultimate, acredito eu.

Utilize este Sofware: Snappy Fax

Bom, barato e resolve. Caso contrário, há outras soluções compátiveis com o Vista.

Windows Fax and Scan, available in the Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista, makes it easy to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those items with others-right from your computer.

Windows Fax and Scan in the Windows Vista operating system provides flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities that make it easy to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those resources with other users. Whether you are a home user or a business professional in a small or medium-size business, the new enhancements in Windows Fax and Scan can help you send information, handle documents, and save time.

Flexible and easy to use, Windows Fax and Scan helps you save time.

Easy-to-use Fax and Scan
Windows Fax and Scan is on the main All Programs menu of the Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate editions. It can be installed as an optional component in Windows Vista Enterprise. Windows Fax and Scan enables you to perform all faxing and scanning tasks and manage all of your faxes and scanned documents from one location.

Windows Fax and Scan offers several preset categories and folders to help you organize your faxes and scanned documents more easily, and it enables you to create customized folders. To file faxes and scans, drag them into the appropriate folder, just as you file and organize e-mail in Microsoft Office Outlook. Terminology and functionality familiar to users of other Windows applications make using Windows Fax and Scan simple and intuitive. In addition, Windows Fax and Scan supports multiple user accounts on the same computer. This is particularly useful for small businesses that have several employees sharing a single computer. Different employees can log on to the same computer to send faxes, and each one will be appropriately recognized and identified as the sender of his or her own faxes. Instead of receiving generic faxes from the business, customers and suppliers will get the personal touch.

Faxing
With Windows Fax and Scan, sending and receiving faxes is as simple as using e-mail. Just select New Fax from the File menu to get a fax template with all of the fields you need.

The To line in the fax template links directly to your address book-either the address book in Outlook or the Windows Address Book. Just click the name of the contact to whom you want to send a fax, and Windows Fax and Scan retrieves the fax number. If you prefer, or if you are sending a fax to someone not listed in your address book, you can type in the fax number instead. Next, you fill in the Subject field and type any notes you want to add to the fax cover sheet. Attach the document you want to fax, just as you would add an attachment to an e-mail message, and the pages of the attachment become the pages of your fax. You can send more documents in the same fax by adding more attachments.

Scanning
Windows Fax and Scan offers one-click scanning of documents and images from locally connected or network-connected scanners and multifunction print/scan/fax devices. Windows Fax and Scan lists all of your scanned files plus other useful information, such as the scanner used to create the file and the day and time the document was scanned.

You can adjust the settings for documents you are scanning, selecting the correct paper size and controlling colors and resolution, and then store those settings as a scan profile. With Windows Fax and Scan you can create and store multiple scan profiles to make it easy to get consistent quality every time you scan, without the need to reselect all of your settings for different types of documents and images.

Before you do a full scan of a document, you can use the Live Preview feature to see how it will appear on your computer after the final scan. Live Preview creates a low-resolution cached image of the document that you can easily modify. You can use it to experiment with changes and view them instantly.

Earlier versions of Windows offer scan support, but only for scanners connected directly to your PC. Windows Vista improves scanning in three key ways. First, it supports scanners that are connected across a network, making it easy for you to share scanners with your family members or colleagues. Second, it offers an enhanced user experience by providing integrated support for scanning, faxing, and e-mail so that all three features work together smoothly. Third, it enables you to easily manage documents after you have scanned them into your system.

Sharing scanned documents
Windows Fax and Scan enables you to set up routing lists for scanned documents. From the File menu, choose Set Up Routing, and then designate the e-mail addresses and server shares that should receive your scanned documents. Whenever you scan a document from that scanner, you can choose from among the routing lists you previously set up.

For later sharing, right-click the icon for e-mail or faxing (both are built in to the task bar of Windows Fax and Scan), which brings up an e-mail or fax template, respectively, with the scanned file attached. From there, you can send the e-mail message or fax as you normally would.

Microsoft has a long history of including various applets with Windows. Some of these applets, such as Notepad and maybe even Solitaire, are virtually indispensable parts of the operating system. Other applets, such as the Character Mapper, remain relatively obscure. Microsoft is including a new applet with Windows Vista called Windows Fax and Scan. Although there is nothing especially remarkable about this new applet in and of itself, it is definitely worth paying attention to. In this article, I will explain why.

What is Windows Fax and Scan?
Windows Fax and Scan is a new applet included with Windows Vista that will allow you to send and receive faxes and to scan documents or images. As I said in the introduction, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about these capabilities. It has been possible to send and receive faxes from a computer for many years now. In fact, most of the time, if you buy a modem it comes bundled with desktop fax software.

The same thing can be said about scanning images or documents. It has been possible to scan images and documents into a computer for well over a decade. On the surface, the only thing that’s even remotely remarkable about Windows Fax and Scan is the fact that Microsoft is now integrating fax and scanning software into the Windows operating system. This means that you will no longer be dependant on third party software for faxing or scanning (although you will most likely want to continue using third party software since most third party scan or fax applications are more full featured).

Of course if Windows Fax and Scan was really as mundane as it appears on the surface, then there is no way that I would be writing about it. What’s important isn’t the fact that you can scan and fax through Windows, but rather the implications of being able to do so.

Unified Messaging
Figure A shows a screen capture of the Windows Fax and Scan interface. If you look at the figure, you will probably notice that it has a striking resemblance to Microsoft Outlook. This is no coincidence. Traditionally, Outlook has been used to store things like e-mail messages, contacts, and calendar entries. However, when Microsoft releases the next version of Exchange Server and the next version of Outlook, they will be expanding Exchange and Outlook’s roles to allow them to accommodate other types of information.

Figure A: The Windows Fax and Scan Interface looks a lot like Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft has a name for Exchange Server’s extended role. It’s called Unified Messaging. The idea behind unified messaging is that the Exchange Server information store will no longer be used solely to store mailboxes and public folders. It will also be able to store voice messages and faxes. Users will be able to access their voice mail, faxes, and e-mail all through Outlook or through Outlook Web Access..

So what does Unified Messaging have to do with Windows Fax and Scan? Windows Fax and Scan gives us a little bit of a preview of what Unified Messaging may be like. It also brings some of the Unified Messaging capabilities (specifically fax management) to those who may not have Exchange and Outlook. To put it into perspective, Outlook is the mail client of choice for those who use Exchange Server. However, Microsoft has always given us Outlook Express for free. Outlook Express isn’t nearly as full featured as Outlook, but it will get the job done for anyone who simply needs to be able to send and receive e-mail, and who does not need access to an Exchange Server. Windows Fax and Scan can be thought of in the same way. It is sort of the unified messaging equivalent to Outlook Express. Windows Fax and Scan won’t allow you to store faxes alongside your e-mail messages, and it isn’t nearly as full featured as Outlook 2007 will be, but it does allow you to send, receive, and manage faxes through an Outlook style interface.

Global Indexing
One of Microsoft’s original plans for Windows Vista was to include a new file system called WinFS. WinFS was supposed to have been database driven and thus allow global indexing of all files. Sadly, WinFS was removed from Vista due to issues involving its reliability. Even so, Microsoft still designed Vista in a way that makes it a lot easier to locate various types of data.

If you look at Figure A, you will notice that there are a number of column headers in the Inbox. As you might expect, these column headers contain information on each fax in the Inbox. The reason why these headers (and other headers not shown in the figure) are significant is because of the way that Windows treats them. Windows Vista treats each fax as an object. The various column headings display individual attributes of each fax object. What this means is that eventually it may be possible to search for a specific fax in the same way that you can search for a specific e-mail now. The current beta of Windows Vista does not seem to include a mechanism that’s specifically designed for searching among faxes, but all of the pieces are in place that could allow such a mechanism to easily be added to the operating system or to third party software.

More on Unified Messaging
Right now you might be wondering why I chose to show you Windows Fax and Scan as a glimpse of what Unified Messaging may be like as opposed to just showing you the new version of Outlook. I would love to show you what Unified Messaging looks like, but the beta version of Exchange that I had at the time of writing this article did not yet include the Unified Messaging component.

Even though I didn’t actually have a beta version of Exchange that included Unified Messaging, Microsoft has released a significant amount of information regarding the features that it will support. Unified Messaging will link your company’s PBX (phone) system to your network in a way that allows faxes and voice mail to be displayed along side of e-mail messages in Outlook. There is also one other feature to Unified Messaging that I haven’t mentioned yet though.

As you probably know, Exchange Server 2003 includes a component called Outlook Web Access that allows users to retrieve their e-mail through a Web interface that is designed to look like Outlook. Exchange 2007 will still include Outlook Web Access, but the Unified Messaging component will add an additional feature called Outlook Voice Access. Outlook Voice Access (OVA) is a verbal interface for Exchange Server.

Right now employees at your company probably have the ability to dial a special phone number and remotely check their voice mail while away from the office. OVA simply extends this capability. Users will still be able to dial in and check their voice mail, but they will also be able to have OVA verbally read them their e-mail messages and calendar entries. Furthermore, users will be able to do many of the same things through OVA that they now do through Outlook. For example, a user could verbally respond to an e-mail over the phone. Likewise, a user could change a calendar appointment or even schedule a meeting all from a telephone.

Of course, Unified Messaging doesn’t just revolve around voice mail and e-mail. Faxes are a big part of Unified Messaging. According to what I have been reading, Exchange Server won’t be able to verbally read a fax to you over the phone, but it will have some other capabilities. For example, you will be able to forward a fax (or a voice mail for that matter) just as you forward an e-mail message today.

Conclusion
In this article I have explained why I believe that Windows Fax and Scan is going to be worth paying attention to. I then went on to discuss how these capabilities will be rolled into Exchange 2007’s Unified Messaging component.

Note: At the time of writing, this feature is not included in the Home and Home Premium Editions of Vista.

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