Windows 7: Brother HL-2040 Printer Driver Issue...

OK, so I grew a big pair of cajones and decided to just "go for it" on my main machine and try the inplace upgrade. I crossed my fingers and started setup off the DVD then downloaded the updated setup files... When I crossed my fingers and clicked upgrade, I waited anxiously... then a dialog box popped up informing me that I had issues that needed to be resolved before setup could continue:

1. I need to update my laser printer driver <---???
2. I need to possibly remove iTunes <-- that's no big deal!

So, I closed setup and went to brothers support site looking for drivers... None were listed but I found a link to the Windows 7 driver update release schedule. Guess what these ID10Ts are doing with my driver??? Not gonna be released until December 2009!!! WTH??? Here is their release schedule: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com...r_schedule.pdf

As a teacher one peripheral I rely on heavily is my printer...
MY QUESTION IS: IS ANYONE HERE USING THIS PRINTER WITH Windows 7 AND ARE YOU HAVING ANY ISUES USING THE LAST VISTA DRIVER?

More info on the issue:

According to Microsoft my printer is compatible...
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/co...ters&os=32-bit

However, a support call to Brother confirmed that they will not have Windows 7 drivers until early December as shown in the release schedule above!

SO BACK TO THE QUESTION... IS ANYONE RUNNING THIS PRINTER WITH Windows 7???

It's a wait until January for the full set of drivers for my HP multifunction. But to give them their ( slight) due. There is a basic printer driver.

(It's not as if Win 7 was unexpcted. it's hardly been kept under wraps, has it.)

Not that I dont believe foreign "tech support" people... LMAO... I took the "Windows 7 Leap of Faith" (AKA:An In Place Upgrade with little to no backup) on my everyday-mainstream-"cant live without it"-workhorse earlier today... And all is good! Whew!
I had a support person at Brother confirm to me that they will not have Windows 7 drivers until early December as shown in the release schedule above!

But according to Microsoft my printer is compatible...???https://www.microsoft.com/windows/co...ters&os=32-bit

Now ask yourself...
Who would you believe?... Some 3rd world, dime-an-hour "tech" or the MS Windows 7 Compatibility page?

Now I have played with Windows 7 in various beta formats for over a year, and I have always found things to work with very little to NO tweaking!!! I have also installed Windows 7 on every PC I own! Thats 3 desktops and a laptop... and ZERO PROBLEMS! I must note that all the other machines were clean installs also... but this was my everyday baby... she's different!

When that 1st attempt at upgrade hit that Brother printer/iTunes snag, I downloaded and installed the very latest Vista driver for the Brother and rebooted! Oh yes I had "deactivated" iTunes (not sure how that mattered) also! Then I immediately launched the upgrade install again...

The 2nd attempt at the upgrade install went flawlessly... I did cringe at 62 minutes when the install went to a crawl, but it picked back up and finished in just under 2 hours. (1:57 to be exact!)

But, my jaw hit the floor when the machine finally came to life under Windows 7... and the printer hit an error!

I calmly hit the button to let Windows 7 try to solve the issue... and WALA it was fixed!

I AM A PC, AND WINDOWS 7 IS SO DAMN COOL!!!

I did a clean install of Win 7 a week ago. My Brother 2040 printer was off at the time and had been turned off since.

I didn't start it until 5 minutes ago when I read this post.

Started it up and it was immediately recognized. The installed driver is version 3.25, dated 7/30/09.

It prints well, no issues.

This is why I love Windows 7... even if upgrade advisor tells you something may not work... WALA! It does once you finish install, reboot, and or update!

Windows 7 is da shiyat!