GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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immortality wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 10:05 am
vlad01 wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 9:20 am Just tried mine. I used the 6.38v win 7 x64 program and the modded 2.01 usb driver for win10 signed. All works perfect on my laptop.
Can you link the download you are using please?

I don't see a specific Win 7 x64 except for the Signed driver and that's installing fine as the device manager is recognising the programmer with the updated driver installed.

I've run through it again, launch as administrator etc but it installs as x86 but no go. Even disabled Avast before installing to ensure that's not the issue.
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Some control panel apps I compiled some time ago were working on all systems I'd run them on, til some time after a windows
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again, adding a manifest with the application compatibility entry is what did the job.
A regedit.cpl I made had this added to work or even be seen in control panel again.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
    name="Microsoft.Windows.Regedit"
    processorArchitecture="x86"
    version="5.0.0.0"
    type="win32" />
<description>Registry Editor</description>
    <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
        <application>
            <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}" />
            <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}" />
            <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}" />
            <supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}" />
            <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}" />
        </application>
    </compatibility>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
        <requestedPrivileges>
            <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/>
        </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
</trustInfo>
The supported OS Id's are vista,7,8,8.1, 10 and 11 are the last.

I'd right click on the .cpl and attempt to open with control panel, it wouldn't open til that manifest was added.
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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immortality wrote: Fri May 17, 2024 7:55 am Installed the software on my desktop PC, manually updated the driver for the programmer and it all works so really unsure of what is happening on the laptop.
I had exactly this issue on my main computer, and eventually on my laptop also after it did one of the win10 major updates.

Windows updates have broken something that causes the GQ software not to open. I had various other issues stating to happen on win10, which all disappeared as soon as I finally accepted the win11 upgrade.
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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These are for the plain GQ-4X and GQ-3X, not the newer GQ-4x4 and 5x5 models. So the newest program and drivers date to 2015, but they work fine on all my computers, even the win 11 laptop.

SignedUSBDriver2.01.zip
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USBPrgSetup6.38.exe
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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Those are the ones I used. So it's definitely not that.
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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The latest version of the program for the GQ4x is USBPrgSetup6.39.exe
And out of curiosity, I added a manifest to this latest builds executable to see if it helped, keen to know.
USBPrg_Manifested.zip
(789.39 KiB) Downloaded 448 times
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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OK, that worked.

6.39 is not listed on the download site.

Windows defender did not like it, tried to stop me using it.
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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immortality wrote: Mon May 20, 2024 8:45 pm
6.39 is not listed on the download site.

Windows defender did not like it, tried to stop me using it.
It's Listed on the GQ4x forum as a potential fix for the same issue you were having.
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Cheers mate. Appreciate the help. Hopefully this one keeps working.
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Re: GQ USB Programmer Software failure?

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immortality wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 1:46 pm Cheers mate. Appreciate the help. Hopefully this one keeps working.
No probs mate, I'm happy that the time I waste on computers spills over into helping others.

On another note, I was thinking after I posted the link to the latest GQ4x installer above, that I'd found a link somewhere to a
later build than that one above, I did, the last build released for the GQ4x - 6.39b, released march 2016, 6.39 was Oct 2015.
I've also added a manifest to the executable of that one too if needed, an updated one that I use to fix the occasional WinSxS
error on some older programs.

The 3 last builds of the executables here with the later updated manifest if anyone else needs them.
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6.38_Manifested.zip
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6.39_Manifested.zip
(789.85 KiB) Downloaded 326 times
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6.39b_Manifested.zip
(790.09 KiB) Downloaded 341 times
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