To get the Firmware updater to work try this to remove phantom COM PORTS:
Quote from: WizBandit on January 25, 2015, 06:55:46 PM
To get the Firmware updater to work try this to remove phantom COM PORTS:
.... pressure Bob, Ryan, Andrew et al, to do a native OS/X version, then all the windows foibles, bugs, bloat, unreliability and general crappyness ceases to be an issue? Yay, I support the motion!
Nice job documenting the port switcharoo and clean up process Whiz .
I used to have a small utility program that showed all the ports being used at a given time - but don't remember what it was . I will have try to find it again.
Larry
I just found this free Window utility program - showed many things I ever plugged in to a USB port and if it assigned it a serial port number. Since I am always helping friends with Android devices every one is listed on there along with many ports . It shows what the device was , when last used, and will let you delete them too.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
Here is the line for my Com 8 ( kind of jumbled here when copied and pasted and without the column identifier but you get the idea ) Looks much nicer in utility program.
Port_#0003.Hub_#0001 USB CDC serial port emulation Communication No Yes No No COM8 DEADC0DE 1/24/2015 4:26:20 PM 1/10/2015 9:24:53 AM ffff 0005 1.00 02 02 01 usbser USB RS-232 Emulation Driver usbser.sys Ports MidNite Solar Inc. USB CDC serial port emulation 3.1.0.0 USB\VID_FFFF&PID_0005\DEADC0DE