HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus

Hello.  My HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus, which contains a copier, printer, and scanner all in one, has always worked well for me in the past. I have always been able to make copies, print documents from my computer, as well as scan documents that I place onto its platen glass, in order to then be able to email these documents.
Now, only the copier and printer function work. Thus, I am still able to copy documents which I place onto the platen glass of the HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus, and I am also still able to print out documents from my computer onto the HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus.
However, now, for some reason, just very recently, the scanner is not working.
For example, from the small window on the HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus, I press the command, Scan. At this point, I am prompted, as I have always previously been, to select Memory Device or Computer. I select Computer (as I have always done).
Then, I am given some sort of error message, such as: No Computer detected. You can start a scan from your computer, scan to your computer from the printer. Make sure the HP Printer software is installed. Windows only – Network Connection. In the HP Printer software, enable the “Activate to Scan Computer” function.
Therefore, where do I find this on my computer? I not being completely versatile in navigating around Windows version 8.0 which is the Operating System for my HP computer, how do I get to wherever it is that I need to go in order to apparently set up whatever is necessary in order to get my scanner working again? For example, what directory, or sub-directory, etc., do I go to in order to, apparently, “Activate to Scan Computer” function?
If it is inside, for instance, the Control Panel, how do I get to the Control Panel? Then, once I am in the Control Panel, what is the next step?
Thank you very much.
All the best to you, James

Dear Nimia,
I greatly appreciate you taking the time to respond to me.  You being so informative, I can tell that you had the best of intentions within your response to me back on September 26.  However, I am apparently not computer proficient enough to be able to know how to go to, as you otherwise nicely stated,
"Find the Hewlitt Packard folder where your applications are. then go to HP Utility, then select your device (printer name)."
Therefore, what I ended up doing was to go to the website, www.hp.com.  From here, I selected Support, then, Download Drivers, where it then prompted me for, "Find my product".   In that block, I typed in HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus.
Then, after selecting on HP Office Jet 6500 A Plus,  I selected my Operating System in order to proceed to download once again the appropriate program so that my computer can be able to talk to my scanner.
Once again, Nimia, thank you very much!
All the best to you,
James

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