[Dx4win] How to identify serial ports on new computer?

[Larry Alkoff]

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jim thanks for the heads up on the many more com ports in DX4Win v8.
>> It would have saved me a lot of trouble but when I saw the business
>> of requiring Admin mode to install (and run?) and placing DX4W in the root
>> directory (both big nonos for me) I lost interest.
> 
> The same issue exists for DX4WIN 7.0x and the Vista/Windows 7
> operating systems.  The change in V8 is that by default, DX4WIN
> installs at the root (i.e. C:\DX4W802) instead of in the Program Files
> directory.  Vista/Windows 7 do some strange things when data is in the
> Program Files hierarchy.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 

Hi Jim.

Like so many others I'm going to keep running Windows XP as long as I 
can.  After that I'll probably just find some kind of Linux solution.

Larry