Pl2303_64bit_installer Windows 10

[Gene Cryder]

Im having the same exact problem. I have already downloaded Windows 10 to all of my computers and I am now unable to download the geocaches. I have tried a lot of different fixes but so far nothing has worked. I am hoping that somebody comes up with a fix. Good luck!

From this Explorist GC thread it seems like some people experienced these problems for awhile. There is one report of someone resoldering the connection, another person installed a virtual Linux program in order to use Ubuntu, another booted the unit in disk access mode and upgraded the firmware to 2.15. But it seems like the problem is not new.

I found a site that provided a compatible version, together with a fix that prevents Windows from overwriting it again. Unfortunately, I no longer have the details of the site that explained the problem or fix, but the driver it provided is Win_Driver_Prolific_3_2_0_0.exe

The only 64-bit driver I have ever found that works with all the "Prolific" adapters is Version 3.3.2.102. The below installer program will remove all of the incompatible drivers, make a change so that Windows can never update the driver without your okay, and install the Version 3.3.2.102 compatible drivers.

I had the same problem. I tried several fixes before I found a fix that worked. When I had the problem, my Magellan was running version 1.8. After logging on to the Magellan support/download page, I downloaded the most recent version. After updating my Explorist GC to version 2.5, the GPSr was able to communicate with Windows10. Check to see what version you are running. If you are not running at least 1.7, you'll have to update to 1.7 before updating to 2.5. I hope this information helps everyone having difficulty.

We purchased a new computer with Windows 10 that had the same problem. Communicator plug-in detected the gps but we could not get a geocache to load onto the gps. I got it working after trying this....

A friend who owns 2 Magellan Explorist GC could not get them to connect to her computer. I tried to connect to my laptop with windows 10 and the computer did not recognize the gps. Later I connected to another computer running Vista and it connected fine.

If you are stuck with only Windows 10 there is a workaround. You can download caches to GSAK and then GSAK will talk to the Magellan just fine. GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) is a versatile little data base program that costs a one time fee of $30. We have used it for years and found in invaluable.

On the other hand, if GSAK talks to the Magellan just fine, the computer is recognizing the device and a user can save a gpx file directly to its "geocaches" folder (or try to get the communicator to work through other methods).

This is not to say that GSAK and other caching managers are not helpful. However, as long as the computer (or iPhone/iPad/Android) recognizes the gps unit then GSAK is not needed to transfer files in lieu of the communicator. If Windows 10 does not recognize the gps because of driver error or other issues, then GSAK could not solve the problem.

This is confusing and contradictory. If GSAK can send caches to the device, then the Magellan is successfully connected to and recognized by the computer. GSAK doesn't have any special communication software built-in; it uses whatever access the computer has to the device. If the computer wasn't recognizing the device, GSAK wouldn't be able to do anything with it.

I have been having the same problem. Geocaching.com treats me like they have never heard of this. They give a bunch of junk solutions that have NO relation to the reality that Windows 10 just does not recognize my Magellan Explorist anymore. I have tried contacting Magellan and they give the same run around with junk solutions. They even told me to get a computer with a lesser program so I could download onto my Explorist again. Great solution. MICROSOFT IS THE PROBLEM. THEY KEEP RUINING THEIR PROGRAMS AND EXPECT US TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEIR RESULTS. THEN THEY SPEND SEVERAL YEARS CORRECTING THEIR NEW PROBLEMS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED UNTIL THEY MAYBE GET THEM FIXED. THEN THEY COME OUT WITH THE NEXT VERSION OF MICROSOFT # WHATEVER AND START THE PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RESPECT FOR MICROSOFT !!!

Just so we're all on the same page - when you say that Windows 10 doesn't recognize your Explorist anymore, you mean that it's not mounting as a mass storage device so that you can access the folders and files on it.

If you're talking about geocaching.com not recognizing that your device is plugged in, you really mean that the communicator plugin isn't detected - because all of the browsers (MS Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (on mac)) no longer support plugins built on the NPAPI platform, of which all of the GPS communicator plugins were made. This is not unique to Magellan, as Garmin's communicator plugin is also no longer useable. The "Send to GPS" button is effectively dead. Use "Save to GPX" instead, or better yet, use pocket queries because you really shouldn't be loading caches one at a time anyway.

I have had the same problem. Almost ordered a new unit but I really liked this one. I DID FIND A WAY TO DOWNLOAD TO IT. You can not use a new web browser. you need to use the old internet explorer the one with the e, NOT THE NEW EDGE. Still only loads one at a time but hey it works. Hope this helps someone out.

After awhile he figured out the problem! He said and I Quote! that Magellan Comunicator will not work with certain browers on your comuter with windows ten. Firefox and Googlr Chrome will not let it work ! It does work using Windows Explore! he loaded it in and my computer works with Magellan every time.

Can you give more detail about exactly what isn't working? This discussion contains posts with a number of unrelated issues, including devices that can't be seen by the operating system, browser plugins that can't write to the device, and a few others.

Communicator plugins are effectively dead. If you can't drop GPX files directly into the explorist, then I'd recommend using GSAK as the most effective method for converting files and getting them on your GPS.

GSAK doesn't have any magic spell here. It's "just" writing a GPX file to the device, pretty much like a drag and drop from file explorer or any other copy operation.

OK, *technically*, GSAK might pick up the straws from a GPX file and arrange them into slightly different bales. But any case where that actually matters is probably hitting a defect somewhere - and I'm carefully NOT saying there are no defects. If you can copy a GPX file to a USB thumb drive or other removable storage, I'd expect a similar copy to work to Explorist. But if that copy doesn't work from the draggy droppy file browser, I wouldn't expect it to work from GSAK because at some level, that's basically what it does for these devices: copying a GPX file to an external drive. Yeah, it might know to unzip it and it might know the right directory in that drive to place the GPX, but the resulting bag of bytes on the device is *probably* the same.

But this IS a three year old post with a bunch of unrelated topics dumped into one, so expounding on any of them here may not be productive. Perhaps best for anyone still having problems to look at the volumes already written and perhaps post a clean help request with enough details that other users of that same combination can help.

I am having the same issues. MY GC is not being recognized by my windows 10 machine. it thinks it is the F: drive and wants me to insert a disk. so I guess I need to dust off my old XP machine, try to get it connected to the internet to download new firmware to my Explorist GC. My GC is on version 1.4xxx, so it sounds like I need to try and update to 1.7, then up to 2.5. hopefully this works to get it connected to Win 10 machine. Overall I loved how easy it was to connect and download caches in the past. I hope that I can make it work with my new PC. Once I can get it recognized by my win 10 machine, then I should be able to get GSAK to see it as well. However, once it is connected, I also should be able to run my pocket queries and save them to my PQ folder, where I will unzip them and copy to the geocaches folder on the GC. Fingers crossed that I can get my old machine to connect still.

SUCCESS!!!! Had to get a little creative. my old PC would not connect to Magellan gps site. so, I went to new PC, downloaded both the V1.7 and 2.1 install files and copied to a Thumb Drive. then, went back on my old pc and executed the install files from there. the old PC recognized my Magellan GC just fine and did the V1.7 install with no issues. So, repeated the process for V2.1 and it also worked. Now my GC is up to version 2.1. So, went back to my windows 10 PC, plugged in my GC and bingo. It was immediately recognized. copied over my .gpx files from the pocket queries I ran and downloaded on the windows 10 machine and just like that, back in business. I was really thinking that I needed to go buy a newer unit, but this saved me several hundreds of dollars. took it out for quick field test and all is well. I am a happy camper once again.

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