Installation of the ParaPort v1.3 driver on Windows 98 systems

Support of Windows 9x systems

Up to version v1.3, the ParaPort driver had to be installed ( see below ). From v2.0 on, the dynamic link library accesses directly on parallel port hardware. There are the following remarks:

• No driver needs to be installed
• All Windows 9x ( including Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, 98 ME ) platforms can be supported
• Only parallel ports at LPT address 0x378, 0x278 or 0x3BC are supported

The following of this page must be executed only on ParaPort v1.3:

Launch the "Add/Remove Hardware Wizard" ...

...in the Windows 98 Control Panel ( click on "Windows Start Menu" -> "Settings" -> "Control Panel" ). The following dialog box is displayed:

... and Follow the Instructions...

... to add a device:

Windows will look for Plug and Play hardware:

When it has finished, add a new device...

...by selecting it from a list ( ! ):

Define the Hardware Type...

as "Other devices". You may use the scroller to find this selection:

Load the Setup Information File...

...by clicking on the button "Have Disk"...

... and "Browse":

In the "file open dialog box" select the file "ParaPort.inf" and click "OK":

Confirm the source directory for the driver files:

Select the Driver...

...by clicking on the button "Next" a first time...

...and "Finish" a second time:

The "Add/Remove Hardware Wizard" will do its job and finish.

If the following dialog box appears, click on "OK" to continue. If it does not work ( may be an old version of ParaPort is already installed on the computer and the target file "ParaPort.sys" is locked ), click on "Skip File". Doing so, you must copy with the Windows Explorer manually the file "ParaPort.sys" from "c:\Program Files\ParaPort\driver" to the windows driver directory "c:\windows\system32\drivers" and may be you must reboot to get work it.

Verify the installation...

... by opening in system properies dialog box ( click in the "Windows Desktop" the right mouse button on "My Computer" icon to display the pop up menu -> "Properties" ) the Windows Device Manager ( click on "Device Manager" ). The following entry of ParaPort should be displayed:

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