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The Drivers for Windows
Figure 11: Driver installed
Windows copies the drivers to the system directory, and loads them. After that the installation is
done, so click on the Finish button.
But this was the installation of the “USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER”, not the serial ports them-
selves. These are also detected as new hardware, and the process repeats for these drivers. Follow
the steps above a second time, and then you are done. Now Windows knows the required drives
for all components, and installs them without further interaction.
3.2.1 Check Installation of the Drivers
Open the Device Manager, and see if all serial ports are available in the “Ports” Device class. Open
the properties of each serial port.
3.2.2 Uninstall Drivers from Classical Way
First disconnect all USB-COM from your system. On the CD-ROM or in the downloaded files find
the folder named “FTClean”. Inside this you’ll find the program FTClean.exe, which is designed
to remove all USB-COM entries in the system as well as all related files from the hard disk. Just
start the software, and follow the instructions on the screen.
This method of driver removal is also valid for uninstalling the drivers, when they have been
installed by the Pre-Installation Executable software.
3.3 Configure the Serial Ports
Open the Device Manager. In the Device Manager open the device class of “Ports (COM & LPT)”
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In this class you’ll see all the entries of “USB Serial Port”. Now open the properties of the serial
port to configure.
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