🚀 go-pugleaf

Jim,

Thanks for the reply.  I used to use code like this, and guess I will 
have to go back to it...  Reading the registry was just so much easier 
and quicker.

Anyhow, the Vista problems are getting worse.  When I first did our 
Vista compatibility testing, I checked everywhere we used the registry, 
among other things...  The serial port thing worked fine.

After releasing a Vista compatibility update, serverl users were 
complaiing about not seeing any serial ports, but for some it worked 
fine.

I retested and suddenly it wasn't working for me either.  The problem 
reports had come from our tech support, who did their own test and kept 
tellig users it worked fine.  When I told them it was broken the seemed 
surprised.  We were both using the same Vista PC for testing.  Under my 
account it stopped working, but on their account it was still working 
fine. The user is supposed to be using an admin equivelant account for 
our software and both of our accounts apperaed to be the same...

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?

I hate black magic!

I think Vista is going to be a PROBLEM!

Sorry for the rant.

Thanks again for the code snippet.