{"id":2563,"date":"2021-10-28T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=2563"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:48:45","slug":"solved-com-lpt-ports-missing","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/com-lpt-ports-missing\/182510.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved COM &#038; LPT Ports Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After re-installing windows XP I discovered my COM &amp; LPT ports missing. Right now I&#8217;m obviously not all that worried about printing, however I do need to get online.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attempted turning my computer off, then back on, in hopes of that being the problem, however it doesn&#8217;t appear to be that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also attempted to manually install it off the XP disk, only to discover that I can&#8217;t even find the ports on the disk, either.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this I&#8217;ve run out of options; I prefer windows XP to vista so I don&#8217;t want to borrow a disk and just upgrade in hopes of a quick fix. Is there anywhere I can go to just download it online onto a disk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":2},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}