Windows XP/ Serial Communications using MSCOMM1 in VB6.0

[Jose L. Altet]

I have trouble running an application in Visual Basic 6.0,
which uses the object MSCOMM to communicate via COM1 with
a serial peripheral (smart card reader) and controlling a
card printer through the parallel interface.

The application works fine under Windows 98 and Windows
ME. How could I install Windows 98 or Windows ME on my
computer? is it possible to do a partition and run a
different OS? How can I do that. The "help" on creating
partitions in Windows XP is obscure at best!

Thinking of a more radical solution, how can I just
replace Windows XP with Windows 98 ?

Thank you in adbvance for your help.

[Pavel A.]

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"Jose L. Altet" > wrote in message
...
> I have trouble running an application in Visual Basic 6.0,
> which uses the object MSCOMM to communicate via COM1 with
> a serial peripheral (smart card reader) and controlling a
> card printer through the parallel interface.
>
> The application works fine under Windows 98 and Windows
> ME. How could I install Windows 98 or Windows ME on my
> computer? is it possible to do a partition and run a
> different OS? How can I do that. The "help" on creating
> partitions in Windows XP is obscure at best!
>
> Thinking of a more radical solution, how can I just
> replace Windows XP with Windows 98 ?
>
> Thank you in adbvance for your help.

[flekso]

it has nothing to do with xp i've been using the same control to access my
mobile phone.

maybe you need to correct the communication parameters (baud rate, parity,
err control...)

although i dids encounter one ?bug? whilst using it on xp, if i had opened
the port too soon ( form_load event) the control would become unusable so i
simply switched to manual control (cmdOpenPort_click) and it all lived
happily ever after.

"Jose L. Altet" > wrote in message
...
> I have trouble running an application in Visual Basic 6.0,
> which uses the object MSCOMM to communicate via COM1 with
> a serial peripheral (smart card reader) and controlling a
> card printer through the parallel interface.
>
> The application works fine under Windows 98 and Windows
> ME. How could I install Windows 98 or Windows ME on my
> computer? is it possible to do a partition and run a
> different OS? How can I do that. The "help" on creating
> partitions in Windows XP is obscure at best!
>
> Thinking of a more radical solution, how can I just
> replace Windows XP with Windows 98 ?
>
> Thank you in adbvance for your help.