David,

Just a shot in the dark (so to speak).  Have you gone into device 
manager and confirmed your ports are  working ok?   I know you can also 
rename comm ports in device manager  to do away with a conflict or to 
find a port number a particular device  will be happy with.

I'm using a Winkeyer USB, so don't have to worry about  comm ports for 
this one.

73, Happy New Year, Steve KW3A

On 12/29/2012 11:36 AM, David W Wood wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Hopefully someone can help.
>
> I have installed the FTDI VCP drivers and am told through my hardware setup
> that I have com ports 1-5-6.
> 1 is already used for the rig.
>
> I then installed Winkey2 and tried to setup using com port 5-6 but am told
> that keyer is unavailable when I chose one of these.  For the hell of it,
> looked at com 2-3-4 and got the same result.
> All this even after shutting down the program and re-booting it.
>
> No, I didn't make the error of plugging the key into a USB port first!
>
> Any comments will be very welcome!
>
> 73
>
> ATB
>
> David W Wood
>
>
>