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Hi folks,

ESPlorer is not detecting any com ports. I'm running Vista and have two serial ports, standard COM1 and USB serial port COM3. I've tried "use custom serial port name" setting it to Dev\COM3 and just COM3 but no joy. COM3 is a standard FTDI converter and is working fine - just not detected in ESPlorer.

If anyone has any thoughts or ideas I'd be very grateful cause I'm all out.

Thanks in advance
R.

Temporary Solution
It would appear that ESPlorer requires administrator privileges to access COM Ports during Scan system.
I tried to "run as administrator" but this option is unavailable in vista so the solution...
-> click start
-> type cmd
-> right click cmd.exe
-> click run as administrator (you will be prompted for the admin password)
then in the command prompt window
-> type cd.. <enter> until you get to c: \>
-> type cd your\file\location
eg. c:\> users\rwvb\documents\esplorer files\esplorer
-> type java -jar esplorer.jar
this should open the ESPlorer.jar file with administrator privileges and enable it to find your COM ports.

Good luck,
R.

Did the trick for me - thanks a lot.