Com ports keep accumulating

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hal Byers

After several attempts to install a Belkin Bluetooth adapter to the usb to
be
used as a virtual com port, I now have 9 com ports and can't seem to find
any
way to get rid of them.
I have a piece of software which needs to access any port between com 1-4.
Now I cant use it.
How do I get rid of the extra ports?
 
Boot into Safe Mode, open Device Manager, remove ALL com ports you find,
reboot and Windows will re-detect.
 
Jerry1 said:
Boot into Safe Mode, open Device Manager, remove ALL com ports
you find,
reboot and Windows will re-detect.
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HI Jerry,
Thanks for the suggestions.
Unfortunately, there are no com ports listed under the lpt and com
port hardware section.
The problem with com1-9 only shows up when i use virtual com ports for
a usb adapter. Somewhere, there is a section which accumulates these
virtual ports.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hal
 
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