I'm on a trip and decided to bring my laptop, programming cable and UV-5R. I have never installed a programming software on it before. Setting it up was not without issue, but it wasn't a big deal either.<div><br></div>
<div>The first thing I did was plugged in the cable to see if the usb-to-serial driver would install. No joy. No big deal. I just went to the Miklor website and downloaded the driver for Windows XP. Driver installed, COM4 assigned, cable working.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The next thing was to download and install the latest CHIRP daily. I installed it and launched CHIRP. Problem. I got the dreaded..</div><div><br></div><div>"Application cannot run because application configuration is incorrect"<br>
<div><br></div><div>A quick google and I visited <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5582">http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5582</a> to get the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. Once it was installed, I launched CHIRP again. Success.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I plugged in my UV-5R, selected Radio -> Dowload From Radio. The next dialog had already correctly selected COM4 so I set Vendor to Baofeng and Model to UV-5R and started the download. The UV-5R was read the very first time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jim KC9HI</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmsrandazzo@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmsrandazzo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with service<br>
pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out about<br>
chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any problems<br>
at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there study<br>
your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and and use<br>
chrip you well not have any problems with this program..<br>
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