Russ

My experience has been similar to Doug. It has worked well for nearly 4
years. It could the update to SP3 but WinFax Pro is still working,
except for the macro and having to manually print incoming faxes.


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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
> You posted an exception. Hal posted the rule. I doubt very many users
> will be as successful as you, but it's nice to know it's worth trying
> if users are game to give it a go on their own with no support.
>> Not to argue with an MVP, but I have been using Winfax
>> (successfully) with XP since XP came out - now at Winfax ver 10.3.
>> Symantec is no help whatsoever & has not been for many years.
>> The macros I have for Winfax (as installed from the WF prog) work
>> OK, but do NOT return the default printer to what it was before you
>> used WF, all of the times. I simply wrote a macro for Word & Excel
>> that does return my default printer to what it was before.
>>
>> HTH
>> Doug
>>
>> Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] wrote:
>>> Versions of WinFax later than version 9.x have proven to be largely
>>> incompatible with Windows XP. WinFax, when installed on an XP
>>> machine usually corrupts XP's Fax service to the point that it
>>> cannot be resurrected
>>> without an OS re-install. Symantec no longer offers any real tech
>>> support
>>> for this product. There are a number of group fax services
>>> available that
>>> are compatible with XP, my suggestion would be to get one. You
>>> might also
>>> want to see if Symantec has a user forum for WinFax; the primary
>>> focus for
>>> this forum is Windows XP Fax.
>>>
>>> http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/groupfax.asp
>>> Group Fax Services
>>> http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/fax.asp
>>> Internet Fax Services
>>>
>>> Hal