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The thread discusses a user's difficulty in maintaining visibility of COM Ports on Windows 7 Home Premium after configuring firewall settings to allow certain programs, only for the ports to disappear after shutdown. The original poster seeks assistance in resolving this issue. A respondent inquires about the user's specific goal, suggesting that enabling COM ports may be better handled through Devices and Printers rather than firewall settings. Overall, the discussion centers around troubleshooting COM port accessibility, with advice pointing toward appropriate device management tools.
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Hi i finally was able to find the COM Ports on Windows 7 Home Premium after going through some posts.All I did was:Control Panel-> Firewall-> Advanced Settings-> Inbound or Outbound.Clicked on a program name in Inbound connections and tried to allow Edge traversal which was previously blocked.After restarting the computer, I could see the Protocols and COM/LPT Ports in the Device Manager.However, after shut down ,these ports are not to be seen even after I have repeated the same settings.

Any help related to this would be much appreciated
 

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What is your goal here? If you are trying to enable specific com ports on a device, you do that in Devices and Printers.
 

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