how to enumerate serial ports under vista?

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From: A Nonymous
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:04

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I have an app that needs to know what serial ports are available.  I 
currently just open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hardware\devicemap
\serialcomm and get the port names.  This has worked for years, but under 
Vista it does not.  I looked with regedit and the names are there but the  
open key fails.  I suspect it is some "enhanced" security feature...

As I said I have been using it for a long time because it worked, but 
perhaps there is a better "recommended" way of doing this?

Does anybody know of another way?

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