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Article #2264Re: how to enumerate serial ports under vista?
From: Mark Jacobs
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:01
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:01
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"A Nonymous" <anonymous@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns98F45F2B4A9CDanonymoushotmailcom@207.105.83.66... > After looking around I happened to open the device manager under the > TECHSUPPORT account/profile. All I did was look to see what ports > showed up, absolutely no changes were made. I ran our app again and now > the serial ports didn't show up! > > I created another test account on the Vista PC and installed our > software. The serial ports showed up. I opened the device manager, ran > our app again and no serial ports... Why should opening the device > manager have anything to do with this? Perhaps it is M$'s attempt at modelling a quantum universe where perceiving something changes it. -- Mark Jacobs DK Computing http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,ac871bf8921dea56 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Mark Jacobs" <http://www.jacobsm.com/mjmsg.htm?BorlandNG> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <Xns98F2AD9E12FA4anonymoushotmailcom@207.105.83.66> <45f8418a$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <Xns98F45F2B4A9CDanonymoushotmailcom@207.105.83.66> Subject: Re: how to enumerate serial ports under vista? Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:01:03 -0000 Lines: 19 Organization: DK Computing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.144.157.8 Message-ID: <45fe7b38@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1174305592 81.144.157.8 (19 Mar 2007 04:59:52 -0800) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail