Caught by Driver Update for Globalsat 4

[Robin3]

My Samsung laptop built in software updater program told me I had a driver update available for my Win 8 machine and stupidly I let it install it after which my openCPN was not working, Had to redefine the Com Port in use and then to reset the baud rate as the new driver was defaulting to 9600 not 4800, it worked occasionally but erratically and the displayed position was jumping around ( albeit on my condo balcony not right out in the open) often by several miles. I used the driver rollback feature in control panel/devices to go back to the original or last installed driver and it is now back OK again or at least it seems to be.

When will I learn not to auto install updates!? Anyone else had a problem? Did I do summat daft??