Pre-requisite for a fully working IrCOMM2k is an installed and functioning infrared adapter. On Notebooks they are usually installed on the system board, for a Desktop-PC you could most likely choose from a variety of external adapters (Serial, USB or to install onto the system board). Once you installed the infrared adapter drivers und confirmed they are running, you can install IrCOMM2k as described below:

The setup application has been designed to allow for easy upgrades. Before starting the upgrade and clicking on "Install", please ensure the below: 

In the Control Panel, click "Wireless Link". 

Select  "Image Transfer". The first option has to be de-selected.

Wireless image transfer uses the IrCOMM-Service, the service won't work unless de-activated. When the service is required by an application, the Infrared-COM-Port can't be open. In other words: no application which uses the port should be running.

As an alternative to disabling the wireless image transfer you might be able to simply de-activate "Allow only active IR connection establishment". Details can be found in section Configuration.

IrCOMM2k offers many configuration options. To open the configuration dialog, you need to open the Device Manager, e.g. via Computer Management, which you will find in Control Panel / Administrative Tools. In the Device Manager look for Ports (COM & LPT) and double-click the Infrared Virtual COM Port.

The Virtual IR COM Port properties page opens now. The Properties-tab shows all values that could be changed. They are explained below: 

• Receive Timeout Scaling
  Increases the read access timeout to the virtual COM-Port by the factor selected.

  Should applications have problems while transferring data, it might be worthwhile to increase the factor. There shouldn't be any negative implications, but you might see improvements only on rare occasion. That is because most applications determine the read-timeout themselves, thus, IrCOMM2k has no ability to determine this.

• Emulated Status Lines
  Up to version 1.1.0 IrCOMM2k emulated all lines as active to the applications. It is more favorable to reset these lines when using Dialup Networking. Should other applications begin to experience problems, the individual line statuses could be modified. Click OK to save your modifications. Also, all applications that expect a change, will receive a message. 

• Allow only active IR connection establishment
  Prevents that other IR-devices can initiate a connection.

  This restriction should resolve most conflicts with other applications, which intend to use IR (e.g. Palm HotSync, image transfer via IR and so on). The typical 10055 error won't be displayed any longer then. In many application scenarios (e.g. IR communications with a cell phone) you could enable this setting, but should connectivity with the device be impacted, you may want to disable it.

Should you really decide to remove this great driver, you can again use the setup-application. Run Setup.exe, click "Un-Install" - done! From version 1.2.1 you will also find IrCOMM2k listed in Control Panel -> Add/Remove Software, where you could run the setup-application from.