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Old April 4th, 2008, 09:08 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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COM1 COM2

we used to use an old PC htat had 2 com ports on the back... we upgraded to a new PC and it only has one COM port... we have a program that is set up to print via COM1 and we only have a COM2 slot... How can i change my COM2 to COM1 so we dont have to rewrite a program

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Mentioning which Operating System would help...

In XP, you can go into Device Manager->Ports->Com Port1 properties->advaned button and change ot to Com2.
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