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Frankly, Nikon Scan sucked. Minolta's scan app sucks. Epson Scan sucks.
If you are going to scan seriously, you need either Vuescan Pro or Silverfast AI. If you are on a budget Vuescan pro is the one to choose, especially since it's a buy once and supported forever deal. I'm still using a 10 year old license several scanners later.
And Vuescan provides USB drivers for supported scanners that are no longer supported on modern OS's.
It's worth noting that unlike the more modern scanners, Nikon did support the LS4000 pretty well during its product life. But it was discontinued in the XP era and the driver model for both Windows and Mac has completely changed since then (once for Windows, twice for the Mac) and almost no company out there provides completely new drivers for discontinued models.
Now Nikon did play games with the newer 5000ED and 9000ED, not supporting current OS's while the scanners were still being sold new by Nikon.
BTW, you can't blame Microsoft for this, the driver model changes that broke all the old drivers are the reason why the newer versions of Windows (Vista and 7, as well as XP Service Pack 3 to some extent) are so much more stable than older versions (XP before SP3, 2000). And Microsoft back-ported support for the new drivers to XP to allow people to continue using it with new hardware and better reliability, via Service Pack 3.
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