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Thread: [RESOLVED] Fake serial port clashing with my program

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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Fake serial port clashing with my program

    Hi All

    Basically I have a program that looks at all the serial ports and attempts to check whats there.
    Lenovo did an update on my PC and i have a new com port appear which isn't a com port.

    Is there a way i can check device name so i can look for it and exclude it

    Thanks

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    Re: Fake serial port clashing with my program

    Update:
    I just made it ignore COM3. Just hope this doesn't impact in the future.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] Fake serial port clashing with my program

    Seems odd that one would have gotten added with the same hardware setup. Those are usually just USB ports that can act as COM ports as not many PCs come with real serial ports anymore.

    System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.GetPortNames will return an array of serial port names for the current computer.

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