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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Gday Stu
i also want native kernel level access to my LPTand COM ports, and it appears you cant do that in the XP version that can be setup "inside" W7.
Its blocked "for my protection". 
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For your protection, means stability of environment. Allowing direct kernel level access would allow people to overwrite portions of memory as well. The whole idea of "virtual" is that we present a consistent interface to everyone and control access to the resources in a measured fashion. You only see the LPT COM and USB in a measured safe fashion that wont disrupt the background OS.
For every 1 that knows what he is doing, there are 500 who don't. Sorry you've become a casualty.