Windows 10: Brother MFC 7820N Printer Scanner no longer works in Windows 10

Thank You Microsoft,


You once again made my life hell by altering your operating system so that it no longer supports my printer/scanners drivers. And there is apparently NO workaround. So now I can print to it - but not scan documents. Thanks. And after spending hours and hours trying to figure out why it no longer functions ( because god knows your support sucks) - I discover that you "upgraded" your P.O.S. OS in April with one of your continual mandatory **** upgrades and that removed the scanning functionality. Your only compromise was a Generic "Legacy" driver for print function only - whats wrong? Can't find a programmer that can code drivers anymore?


You are a complete waste of time - and I will be very happy to move to a MAC OS.


Thanks again for wasting more hours of my life.

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