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Thanks a lot
After discovering Vista enterprise comes without FAX facility, I tried installing the FAX option in Windows XP on an older PC. That failed due to being on service pack 3 and requiring drivers from the Service pack install. Tried the free Linux Ubuntu 10.04 option on an old Dell laptop which almost worked.
Installed the BVRP tools and soft modem option for a Lenovo Thinkpad R400 and found it works very well. A really impressive piece of free software.
Many of us need to send fax documents with signatures for legal reasons. I cannot see this requirement going away so perhaps the marketing people at Mircosoft should think again before removing occasional but essential components. Many thanks again.
AWESOME...I wonder when Linux (if ever) will get the great market push? I guess in a capitalistic society there is room for Linux & Microsoft.
I HATE WINDOWS !!! Slow and predickable. I love my ubuntu but can not use the fax feature.still trying to figure that one out! My vista I can not set up for faxing using my modem. The modem is installed but can not get any futher sucks
Very funny... you used a contradiction - people at Microsoft and think... hehe funny this is precisely why we the users (we the People...) have so many problems with their software, they try to think INSTEAD of us, and decide FOR us... what is best for us. Oh, oh, just a moment, wasn't it how we defined a totalitarian system? Microsoft considers everyone an imbecile and therefore keeps hiding all the setup options 5-10 levels deep and then create college courses where all this mambo-jumbo-logy is being tought in result creating an army of pseudo professionals speaking their "language of Mordor". These issues of permanent incompatibility Windows with itself, and everything around should really put this O/S out of the loop. Have they built the O/S that was compatible and open - they would be great, but as it is they ripped all of us and live in the world of legal battles with the whole planet grabbing a dime each time Windoze crash... this made them super rich, but not smarter. I grew up on DOS and Windows, but the time came to move to "real O/S" and then I started my adventure through Linux, BSD, Irix. I vote for Linux, as Apple did. Time to forego Microsoft, they will never get it, as they run after dimes, not try to listen. Of course Windows will join world of Unix but not earlier than they figure a way to cut itself a share of the market which they neither created, nor deserve. Let us waste them.
Caveat - the USR Phone Tools software here does work on Vista, but it will not send PDF documents.
Free outgoing fax service.
http://www.tpc.int/tpc_home.html
Check out http://faxzero.com/
1 doc/max 3 pages/max 2 fax per day
Seem to work worldwide as per a colleague who uses it
con: ad on the cover page for free fax
GotFreeFax.com is another website that allows user to send free fax online to the US and Canada. User can either upload a PDF/Word file or enter text to fax. Plus, it does not add Ads to user's fax, which makes it more suitable for faxing formal documents.
awesome
That's fine, but there is a min of 3 pages, I only need to fax 1.
add a cover page or 2 blank pages.
Both Black Ice Impact ColorFax and BVRP Classic Phone Tools (available from USR) appear to work fine and are indeed free. However, neither provide a faxing printer emulator, so you have to manually add supported document types to an outgoing fax. Impact ColorFax appears to have one, but printing to the printer emulator only launches the program and nothing from whatever you were trying to fax is transferred (Vista problem only maybe?).
I can't find free versions of this. Only trial versions that make you pay soon after. Anyone have a link for really free versions?
The above comment as you can see is from 2009. To my best knowledge there is no true free version for either of these products. BVRP also has a poor reputation with WOT and would not therefore be recommended by this site anyway.
I just downloaded and installed BVRP Classic Phone Tools in Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit). Yes, I know, Win 7 has a built in fax program, but it sucks.
Worked fine on a test fax I sent.
I do not have a USRobotics/3Com modem; mine is a Rosewill USB modem. No problem. In setup, I selected USRobotics in the left pane and found a model in the right pane that showed V92, which my modem also is. Works like a charm.
I went to BVRP Website and classic Phone tools is $19. Where do you get it free?
How do you fax more tan one page with BVRP? Thanks..Mark..
One solution that works for me--
Save docs in .tif format on my HP C4450 printer which then allows me to copy a page, then add as many pages as I wish,
This "file" can than be 'attached" to BVRP Classic Phone fax.
Not sure if there is a maximum of 8 pages,I had 9 pages, but only 8 appeared in the Fax review.
BVRP allows us to review the final product before sending, and this was when I discovered 1 page short.
Eric
Yes I would like to know the answer to that too !! - Rich
To fax more than one page with BVRP I simply print the document to the BVRP Fax Capture printer driver and then all works automatically (including the program has a preview, just before sending the fax, where the user can see and verify the number of pages being sent). The printer driver is installed automatically during program setup.
I have vista 64 bit system and I used Blackice Impact Color fax it works great.
These steps worked for me.
Click on image for full size.
step 1
step 2
step 3
Follow the setup steps in step 3 and your set.
This should work with any home phone line.
Looks like this poster is using Business or Ultimate. The question was how to fax in vista *HOME* edition
Any other FREE FAX options for Vista?
http://www.blackice.com/How%20to%20download%20Colorfax.HTM
Is this anything I can use w/my HP Pavilion Vista 64 bit computer for a fax. I use fax for work everyday where I send microsoft works documents over to my boss - I am very upset my new computer didn't come w/a fax program as my other computers always have - I could use the free fax where you can do two a day - but I do like 10 a day sometimes?? Thanks for any suggestions :) OR if you think the above program would work.
http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
It will work for Vista 64bit (or so the web site says).
Thanks for the link to download. I had so much trouble with the supplied Microsoft Fax and Scan with my Vista Ultimate 64 that I gave BVRP a try and it worked fine.
If I turn my modem off it seems that Vista doesn't recognize it until I add it in again. And now it has lost all my sent faxes so it is time to switch to hopefully better software. When you only fax once every 3 months it is hard to shake out any software. I didn't want to risk sending advertisements with the fax web sites.
I noticed that the Classic Phone Tools (BVRP) has a High Quality check box which I had to uncheck to send the fax I wanted to a Senator. I never saw this option in M$ Fax and Scan so maybe that was my problem. But I got the fax sent fine and just in case anyone is wondering I'm going over VOIP (Vonage) also.
Ok. Thanks for this information. I FINALLY got this downloaded etc etc - Now let me say this - I've ALWAYS purchased lower end computers b/c I don't do much of anything that's REALLY important - some work stuff that can also be done by email - At any rate - I bought a much better computer than I ever have before which means I shelled out a lot more money than I ever have before. (By the way, the previous two computers I've purchased BOTH only lasted me about 2 years -they BOTH fried w/the electrical parts.) SO - I did upload the program, and I was able to successfully do an outgoing and receive an incoming fax - BUT it sounds weird - like the phone line kinda sounds really sharp/very different than it has before. Can this cause a problem in my computer?
ALSO - B/C I downloaded this program from a website - am I susceptible to viruses or problems caused by downloading something?
I appreciate it. I don't know much about computers, only enough to do what I need to do and certainly don't want to damage anything inside my new toy :)
Thanks!!
The sounds are normal connection sounds. If you dou not like it, mute it. Otherwise everything is OK - do NOT worry - the program works.
I tried Black Ice. It does NOT work. On FaxZero, you can send two (3 page) faxes daily PER each e-mail address!! However, the usr - Classic Phone Tools does work for any modem not just usr.
Latest Version of the freeware program BVRP Classic Phone Tools v9.04 may be found at this location http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp-904.asp
I have tested it on Vista Home Premium (32 bit) and it works just fine.
Judging from the irate letters I get, Microsoft made a big mistake in dropping fax capabilities from the lower end versions of Vista.
The situation was made worse by the fact that when Vista was released many commercial fax programs wouldn't work with Vista and a number still don't.
To answer your question I am not aware of any free fax program that works with Vista. If someone knows one please let me know.
As I see it you have two options:
1. Use a free web based fax service. K7.net run an impressive inbound fax service where faxes received at your personally dedicated phone number are forwarded automatically to your email address. eFax offer a similar service though they will send you a fair amount of promotional material as well. For outbound, try faxzero.com; it's free for up to 2 faxes per day to the US or Canada.
2. Buy a commercial fax program that is known to work with Vista. I know from personal experience that Snappy Fax V4 works ($30 from http://www.snappysoftware.com) and I'm sure there are others
Gizmo
I used snappy fax for years. I stopped when I could get the print to fax function from window. Now I have the Vista no fax OS and I tried snappy again and I was surprised at how technical and complex it has become. I didn't like it. I just want the print to fax simplicity. For my business fax is on the way out. Most do email which suits me fine.
HRS
BVRP works with Vista. I selected 3Com as modem. I have a laptop.
do you need a modem? does it work wireless? does it work on VOIP?
I use an old external Robotics 56KB modem over Vonage (VOIP) and seems to work fine with BVRP. I had so many problems with Vista Fax and Scan that I uninstalled it. Like others when I turned off the modem (normal state for me) Vista lost the modem and I had to reinstall every time I wanted to Fax. I never did get Windows Fax and Scan to work reliably. Many times it stops after the first page which really annoys the people you Fax to.
But with BVRP, like another person mentioned, set the High Quality off. I got frequent disconnects with HQ on. Maybe a newer modem or better quality voice line would work with HQ on. Also BVRP has a print driver interface that makes it real easy to fax from most programs.
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