What is proper way to detect all available serial ports on Windows?

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There are several ways to list serial ports under Windows but I'm not sure what is the proper way: the way that does detect all serial ports that are available.

One good code example is http://www.naughter.com/enumser.html - where there at 9 (nine!) ways of enumerating serial devices.

The question is: what is the optimal way of doing it.

Requirements: * to not open ports in order to check if they are available. * to be able to detect ports with different names than COMx.

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