windows 10 and tunerpro

have the tpi based swap in the duster, and its not firing the injectors. so I go to load up tunerpro rt and my aldl cable. cant get the laptop to recognize the cable.

what I'm using is an old aldl cable with a box labeled 10k, all from akmcables.com. have a seriel port to usb adapter that plugs into the usb ports on my laptop.

laptop is a brand new dell that I got about a month ago from bestbuy, loaded with windows 10.

fresh dowmload of tunerpro rt, fresh $8 .bin, .adx. and .xdf.

ecm is a 7727 ecm.

on my old laptop, I used the same stuff and had no problems ($a1 being the only difference).

so what do I need to do to get this thing talking to the ECM?

drivers for whatever USB adapter you're using are correct?

is the correct COM port showing up in tunerpro preferences?

only com option I'm getting is com5, which near as I can tell in windows 10 doesn't correlate to anything.

additionally, I cant find a compatible driver for my usb to serial adapter. so I guess first step will be getting an new adapter, with current software for windows 10.

I hadn't even thought about drivers. I'm just not that computer savvy, I guess.

that's the first thing that came to mind after the driver fiasco involving the FT232 clones that only work with older driver sets.