Installing the USB Drivers
Plug the USB receiver into any USB port on your computer. If the driver does
not install automatically, the New Hardware Found wizard will open. Direct it
to look for the best driver in a location you specify. Browse to the
USBDrivers folder on the supplied CD (or the folder where you extracted the
contents of the USB driver ZIP file that you downloaded), which contains all
the drivers. The driver for your version of Windows will be automatically
selected and installed. Note that if you are running Windows XP you may get a
warning that the driver is not certified. This is normal. Allow the
installation to continue anyway.
Once the USB driver is installed, the USB receiver will appear as a COM port
on your computer. You may need to open the Windows Device Manager (right
click My Computer, select Properties, and select the Device Manager tab, or
(for Windows XP) click the Device Manager button under the Hardware Tab) and
look at the entries under "Ports (COM and LPT)" to see what COM port number
has been assigned. You are looking for the "USB serial port". It will
probably be assigned to COM1 if you computer has no other COM port. Otherwise
it may be COM2, COM3, or something else. When you install the RfRemote
software you will need to assign the proper COM port number. Caution: if you
later plug the USB receiver into a different USB port, it will probably be
assigned a different COM port number. Make sure you always plug into the same
USB port, otherwise you will need to change the COM port number in
RfRemote.