How to Force a COM Port for the barcode scanners (XP or 7)



How to Force a COM Port for the barcode scanners (XP or 7)

Go to the device manager in windows.

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Once the device manager is up go to the (COM&LPT) and hit the + symbol and find 4800dr Document Reader.

Right click on it and go to properties.

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Then click on Force COM port tab and check mark “Force COM Port Feature enabled”.

And under Force COM port – Order of connection based. Remove the 4, 5,6,7,8 in those boxes and enter a number in the first box as desired.

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(my example I set my forced com port to 13)

Now setup the TraCS COM Port as 13 and it will always be set as 13.

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