The knowledge base article Q112841 (search for it on
http://search.microsoft.com) explains how this is intended
to work (or not:-).

Regards,
Peter

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dennison@telepath.com wrote in message <7abvp0$nre$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <7abh8g$bvh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>  lynch@cci.de wrote:
>> Well, the device on the other end is fixed at 9600 8N1. The PC will be
>> running Windows NT 4.0 and our software, nothing else. We had naively
assumed
>> the settings in the Control Panel would be used as defaults, however the
>> ports always default to 1200 7E1 no matter we set in the Control Panel. I
>> have no idea what Windows uses those settings for... (I am talking about
>> Einstellungen- Systemsteuerung-Anschl�sse on German NT, not sure about
the
>> English name)
>I noticed the same behavior in NT 3.51. I'm saddened to see they didn't fix
>it.