Device Manager is a Windows built-in tool that allows you to view and control the hardware attached to your computer and update the device drivers.
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Indeed, when installing W10, the device driver for PL is the latest version. Click on properties, and get the details:. Sometimes, installing the latest version of drivers solve the problem, but in this case, this is the opposite.
The latest version doesn't work anymore with old hardware, and you need to downgrade the driver. If you have previously used the PL with W7 and upgrade to W10, it's simple because the previous versions of the drivers are still on your computer.
To downgrade, use the configuration panel, choose COM and LPT and right click: the first choice should be "update driver" or something similar: sorry, but I've the French version, and hope my translation is understandable. On the next windows, choose the second option "Look for a driver on my computer". Another windows appear, and select the bottom option: "choose from a list on my computer". You should now have a list showing all versions of the driver available. By example:. I have tried with 3.
If you don't have the old versions of drivers, you can tried to install them from the minidisc provided with your product. Launch this program, it will install the driver. But, as soon as you plug the device on USB port, you W10 will revert to the latest version 3. If you watch the configuration panel, you will see the COM port coming OK, but then switch off because of error It don't care, because the old version is now available in the list, and you can proceed as mentioned above.
Once manually set, the device driver remain in the 3. Edit: The procedure above works, but only temporary. Each time you turn your computer off, the latest driver is reloaded due to windows auto-update or if you unplug and plug again the device into USB port.
To avoid that, a recent turnaround exist and has been published by Microsoft. It's a tool named wushowhide. It allow to inhibit the auto-update for a particular program or driver Prolific in our case. Date: 12 May Date: 30 July Date: 18 June Date: 05 June Date: 01 October Date: 12 July Date: 17 October Date: 03 March Date: 19 September Date: 05 July Date: 04 September Date: 15 August
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