> COM3 is used by a built-in modem. Are you using the modem? If not, try disabling it in device manager and see if the USB moves to COM3: after the next boot. On Unix, this is handled by creating a symlink in /dev, so the underlying device name doesn't matter. Windows lacks symlinks (at least exposed to the API, the Object Manager namespace internally uses things very similar to symlinks to map, for example \DosDevices\COM1: to \Device\Serial0. Though I don't recommend it, it's conceivable you could mess with these object manager links to achieve what you want. You'd probably have to change the link after the driver started each time, as it is the driver that creates the OM namespace links during driver startup.
As for changing the mapping by editing the registry, that's only going to work if you find the backing store for the so-called COM Port Database. Search engines might help you find something that has worked for others. Good luck, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
