> I would echo Bill's sentiments about COM1/2. I would avoid using these > as virtual ports since it could cause a conflict with existing hardware. > > > Eric Wachsmann > FlexRadio Systems >
This is good advise in general as COM1/2 are still often present on typical motherboards. And, even if they aren't, the defaults should work just fine regardless. I use the defaults without any conflict (I think it is COM4/5, but the help text shows which -- use them). However, one can barely imagine a case where these ports are not there or are readily disabled and they might be useful for vCOM (some programs still have limited choices of COM ports and others somehow work better with defaults, which are often COM1 or COM2). A really adept PC user could go in and disable COM1/2 on the motherboard to at least get by for a while until something, somewhere got fixed. So, pulling support for COM1/2 altogether is probably not a good deal. Except for that uncommon circumstance, I would heartily agree to stay away from them. Taking the defaults, which were well-selected IMHO, should ordinarily work just fine for the typical PC. Larry WO0Z
