Windows Vista Instructions

New versions of Internet Explorer can present problems with Valiant communicating with the Com Port. Even if Valiant had no problems last year, you may find that it no longer communicates with your timer. Internet Explorer they can keep Valiant from communicating with your timer by blocking the Microsoft ActiveX com port communication control (MSComm32.ocx). Valiant is not a signed program and so when the installation program puts MSCOMM32.ocx into your "...\system32" folder and registers it, Internet Explorer promptly deems it unsafe and blocks it from working. This happens even though Microsoft wrote the ActiveX control.

If you have this problem (Valiant used to work but now it doesn't) contact me. I will provide a repair file. It is a registry editor file that will change the value of the registry setting that Internet Explorer has set to block MSCOMM32.OCX.

Simply copy the file to the folder where Valiant is installed. Double click on the file. You will be informed about all the scary things that can happen when you modify your registry...but allow it to run and the registry key will be changed to allow MSCOMM to function. Valiant will then be able to communicate with the serial port. If you update Internet Explorer you may lose the ability to communicate with the ports again. In that case you will need to perform this little trick again.

Valiant 2010 automatically checks to see if MSCOMM is blocked and then alters the registry key to fix it. The patch is only for previous versions that may have quit communicating with the com port.

Greg Foresi

Valiant Ski Scoring, Ski Scoring Software, Valiant Cross Country and Ski Scoring, Valiant XC & Ski Scoring, Ski Scoring Software,

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