[JohnSc1]

I am posting this because I have not been able to find any information on this combination of hardware and OS. It seems nobody wants to talk about Vista. I decided to just wing it and see what happened, and I hope this helps someone down the line.

First, there are NO drivers included for Vista on the CD that comes with the cable. Don't even put the CD in your drive! When you plug the cable into a USB port, Vista asks if you want to search for drivers, let it find them. You will end up downloading and installing drivers for the USB AND a serial port. There are two things to download and it happens one at a time. This all comes from Microsoft's Update website. When mine finished, it assigned COM 14 (yes, thats COM Fourteen) to the port.

All you have to do is be sure your programmer software, whatever it is, is looking at the correct COMM port, and it is NOT necessarily a low number.

From what I have been reading here, this process is easier in Vista than just about any other OS. Oh, I almost forgot, Win95 for the Pro-05 scanner works perfectly with Vista. I have the 32 bit version and will not be able to try it on the 64 bit Vista.

Good Luck and have fun.