| ??? 12/04/04 22:53 Read: times |
#82548 - Win2K and WinXP Responding to: ???'s previous message |
In Win2K and WinXP it is possible to change the COMM port assignment that has been chosen for a device as long as you choose a new port number that is not in use. These changes can be made under Device Manager. Find the current device/port/driver in the Device Manager hardware list. Double click on it to open the device driver window. There is then an advanced tab that takes you to an option to change the port assigned to the device driver.
I have had to do this on a number of occasions when some crazy app only supports COM1 -> COM4 and a USB adapter that I need to use wants to live on say COM7. What you do is first find something like the internal modem which may be on COM2...and change it to some currently unused port such as COM13. Then you are free to assign COM2 to the USB serial adapter. Once you make changes to these assignments they are remembered by Windows. Michael Karas |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| ISP and USB | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It depends! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| PC Configuration | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| how did you do that att Craig | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ditto! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
USB and COM ports | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Win2K and WinXP | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Lazy windoze programmers | 01/01/70 00:00 |