I thought I made it clear this machine is a driver for my scanner ONLY.
To be honest, I didn't read your post because as I said, no support being offered for Windows XP on this side irrespective of problems, because there won't be any updates to fix them !
So there's no internet connection to that laptop ? No Wifi ? No LAN ?
Its not only the security concerns of course, its the general stability issues related to bugs you can't solve because there are no updates.
All I shall say is "good luck" and leave you in peace.