Originally Posted by Bdc101

I had a LOT of trouble getting a Windows 10 laptop to talk to PA Soft/BMW Scanner.



The first problem is that people who have it working think it is easy. I think your difficulties will vary depending on the exact PC you are using and the version of windows. For me, I had to install a particular flavor of a particular USB driver and reinstall it every time I wanted to use it, because Windows 10 will blow it away regularly and there is no way to stop it from doing so. Wading through tons of forum posts to find the exact thing to do (since there are no published instructions that match my issues) was a lot of time.



Second, I made the mistake of buying a cheap chinese cable off ebay first. It worked the first few weeks I had it, and then never worked again. I was able to identify it as broken and bought the correct cable from the place in the UK. (I would have to do some digging to find the actual place, the name escapes me right now.) The bimmergeeks cable looks legit though, hopefully that is a good one.