I have both Win 7 and Win 10 on my laptop, but on different hard drives, so I switch hard drives to switch between OS's. I am communicating with a microcontroller via a Prolific PL2303TA USB-to-Serial Comm Port, and all works fine when the OS is Win 7. When I try to run my system (same hardware and software) under Win 10, the com port does open successfully (no error message from FreeBasic), but no data transmission. Device manager says my device is working properly, and settings match what I use to open the laptop com port. It appears that the com port doesn't wait for a start bit before trying to receive data.