Windows 10: IRDA not working again

Hello,


Since one of the recent updates, my IRDA adapter is not working again. The same happened a several years ago, then an update made it working for a long time and it's not working again.

I tried to fix it via Device Manager, but avail. I was asked for a disk, because otherwise it is not recognized, and I have no disk with driver. I am pretty sure the driver was native.


I have a Polar RS800 running watch and it is working perfectly, but, well, because of another Win 10 bug, I cannot transfer my workouts.

The last time it worked in November and as I was injured, I could not use it until today and then I noticed it was not working.

I really don't want to create a virtual machine with Windows 7 on my PC only to transfer my workouts.


Any other recommendation or fix?


Thanks,


Mike

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Enabling Irda in Windows 10 (Infrared Remote Control)


I have an Infrared Remote originally designed to use with Windows 7 MCE. Only recently I noticed that it had stopped working and so I started some research on the web to find the solution. To cut a long story short I found this technical article which appeared to be the solution:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...0-version-1511
It only applies to Win10 version 1511. It so happened that I was having a lot of other problems relating to corruption of my installation of Windows (Ashampoo Burning studio was refusing to work properly and crashing) so decided to do a reinstall and follow the above article immediately afterwards. I now have Win10 version 1511 installed. I have a lot of updates to install but am quite prepared to reinstall to go back to ver 1511 to get this to work.

I managed to follow the instructions as far as enabling Irda in an elevated command prompt and got the ".../done" response for both commands. However, when I tried the next step of "flushing the updated configuration information to the registry" (step 2) There was no "IrDA network device" under Network Adapters in Device Manager.
I even followed the same steps again using the hidden system Administrator account thinking this may be some sort of permission problem. That didn't work either.

Now I am stuck. Is there anyone out there who can a suggest anything to help please?

 

IRDA device in Windows 10

To isolate your concern, we'll need some information:

• Have you just recently upgraded to Windows 10?
• Are you trying to update your IRDA?
• What seems to be the problem with IRDA?

We're looking forward to your response.

 

Windows 10 IRDA stack

*****NEWS FLASH*****

The IRDA stack is NOT gone. I heard from a diver on another forum and found a fix.

Alternative: on windows interface:

To remove:

Go to Settings -> Apps and Features -> Optional Features

Select IrDA Infrared and click uninstall.

To Install

Go to Settings -> Apps and Features -> Optional Features

Add a feature (top of list)

Select IrDA Infrared from the list.

It installs and should be visible in the Optional Features list.

Go back to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items and hopefully you will now see Infra Red icon and features.

I had to go an extra mouse click. In the "Options" panel, I did not find the IRDA app there. There is a button at the top of the page with "ADD+" . I clicked on that and a bunch of Apps showed up such as "Hebrew characters", "Chinese
characters", etc. Scrolling down that list I found IRDA. Clicked on it, it installed and my IRDA device is working perfectly. Also checked Device Manager and the orange triangle with the "!" is gone. Hope this helps your Master Scuba Instructor friend.