Oh, and one other thing... i use some little application that's called "User Port", that way i can use almost all programs under XP...
Here is a little description about the program:
(Taken from
http://www.embeddedtronics.com/design&ideas.html)
"UserPort is a simple kernel mode driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that will give programs access to I/O ports. This makes it possible to access the hardware I/O ports directly under Windows NT/2000/XP just like 95/98/ME. We do not support Minidaq running on Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems but with the UserPort kernel driver it is now easy to use it on an NT/2000/XP system. Once the UserPort driver is loaded, it becomes transparent and simple to use"
You can get it right
here
Cheers.