Can I get new drivers for my printer? I have just changed from a Windows XP desktop PC to a Windows 8 laptop. Unfortunately I cannot get my Canoscan scanner to work. I cannot find an updated driver. Do you know of one or is there another way to get the scanner to respond to the laptop. When manufacturers decide not to support an item of hardware, either because it is a few years old and considered obsolete or a new operating system has been released, then there is very little that you can do about it. It is always worth trying the most recent driver from the manufacturer's support website and occasionally a peripheral will run on a W8 PC using the W7 driver, but on more sophisticated devices, such as multi-function printers and so on, some functions may not work properly, if at all. There are two fairly exotic solutions that can keep your scanner running and they are to install Windows XP on a separate partition on your new PC's hard drive, or use Virtual Machine software, which is basically a way of running XP inside Windows 8, but neither method is very convenient, straightforward, or suitable for novices. Sad to say that in the end it is often easier, quicker and cheaper to get a new scanner, or multi-function printer.