Hi,
It seems a Microsoft fixation that anything that puts streams on the
serial port is a Microsoft Serial Ballpoint (I bet you've never seen
one) since any version I remember. I don't think that the application
version makes any difference. If the application has open the port
before the data stream is present, Windows will not try to autodetect
anything in it, but if the serial stream is present and no application
has open the serial port, and specially if the stream is present when
Windows is starting, it will "smartly" interpret is as the infamous
ballpoint. The solution has ever been to disable it, from Windows 95 I
think.
Regards,
Javier
El 15/05/2011 21:18, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R escribió:
I replaced a 2.22 version Thunderbolt with a 3.0 version
and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit went nuts. After some Googling
it became apparent that some bagbiter MS software was
interrogating the serial ports looking for a serial ballpoint
pointer. Windows started hallucinating as it tried to parse
GPS data as cursor movements and mouse clicks.
After reinstalling Windows twice I saw a message suggesting
disabling the ballpoint driver. That works so far. Don't remove
it, it will just come back. Disable it.
The 3.0 version seems to do a much better job keeping things
steady than 2.22 dis.
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