Re: How do I clean out unwanted virtual COM ports?

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"Alphaxi" <Alphaxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"MartyG" wrote:

I have a hardware test project where I connect USB to Serial devices to
my
computer. The devices have unique serial numbers and so each time
different
device is plugged into my USB the New Hardware Wizard launches and
assigns
the next available COM port number to the device. There are two things I
want
to do:

1) I want to free up COMxx port numbers consumed by devices I will not
see
again.

Why would you expect Windows to know what devices you will not see again?


2) I want to control the assignment of COM port numbers in some automated
way (via my test software) to assign the port number I want.

That would be a feature of the test software, which is telling Windows what
port to create. Windows is not dictating the port number, except for
blocking in-use ports.

Properly designed software should remove the virtual port when it shuts
down. It should not orphan those ports.

You might consider contacting the publisher of the test software for a
solution, since it is the behaviour of *that* software that you're asking
about, not Windows. Windows is just doing what it's told to do.

HTH
-pk

I am having the exact same problem, has anyone responded?


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