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In order to be able to use Shared Serial Port's great features within your application, Shared Serial Port should be installed on target machines (you can include this as a part of your software installation). Please, note that you need to own OEM license to be able to redistribute Shared Serial Port without any limitations. Only OEM License grants commercial royalty-free redistribution rights.

To install it on target PC, please follow these steps below:

• Copy ss_service.exe, sershare.inf, sershare.sys, sershare_setup.exe, sharedbus.inf and sharedbus.sys files which are supplied with Shared Serial Ports OEM installation package to the target PC. These files should be placed in the same folder to work correctly.
• Install the driver set by executing sershare_setup.exe command
• Install the service by executing ss_service.exe INSTALL command
• Create shared serial ports in Windows registry as described in this section
• Start Shared Serial Port's service by executing ss_service.exe ENABLE command

To uninstall Shared Serial Ports, please follow these steps below:

• Stop the service by executing the following command: ss_service.exe DISABLE
• Unregister the service by executing ss_service.exe UNINSTALL command
• Remove the key from Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ELTIMA Software\SharedSerialPorts)
• Remove the driver by executing sershare_setup.exe /u command
• Remove all of the files from the target PC
• Reboot the target PC to finalize the changes