Well... Fate finally hit and I lost my XP laptop that I was using. Had to buy a new one. this one has W7 Home Premium and I am not having any luck getting things back in operation. I suppose I could just reinstall XP over the system but I don't really want to go through all of that brain damage too.

So, What do I need to know to get the programming and drivers to talk to the computer?

Fortunately, I was able to save the HDD from the old machine and all of the original files are intact so I have that much going for me.

Thanx, Mongo

I had no problems whatsoever with Win7 Pro. However, I made sure to get 32 bit. Is your laptop the 32 or 64 bit flavor? I know a lot I see advertised come with 64 bit. If it's the 64 bit variety make sure to get 64 bit drivers. I know I've seen Humberto link some Win7 drivers in some other posts but I'm not sure if they're 32 or 64 bit.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Rick

Well... This one is strictly 64 bit W7. I'll have to do some driver raiding soon.

Thanx.

two solutions if you need to run older/incompatible software in win7_64 is XP mode (free) and VirtualBox (Free as well) I use VMWare myself, which is yet another virtualization hypervisor to run 32 bit XP on top of windows 7. It comes in handy when you have compatibility issues.

I will certainly look into these solutions!

I did get the programming edotor to work and found a driver that works on the USB adapter. Haven't tried to do anything yet but will be in a day or two.

meanwhile, there are A few things that the emulators may also help in dealing with the change. Specifically, the remote control program I use to edit my website. (but that's a different story)

Thanx guys, for helping here.