ASA DDM85A Autoslew Driver Won't Start from Chooser

[William Martin]

I don't think this is an ACP issue but I am hoping someone might have some advice. The dreaded event happened: The venerable Win 10 observatory pc, operating normally with the latest versions of ACP, ASCOM, Maxim, and the ASA DDM85A telescope driver, Autoslew, crashed irretrievably. New Win 11 pc. Autoslew (5247) and the ASCOM/Alpaca Telescope Chooser now throw an error. The text of the message, which occurs under all conditions and with all the various Alpaca workarounds, is as follows:

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Driver Initialization Error
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The driver "AstrooptikServer.Telescope" threw an exception when loaded.


This means that the driver would not start properly.


Please screen print or use CTRL+C to copy all of this message and report it to the driver author with a request for assistance.


System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800702E4): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {9D1FD184-52C0-4200-A003-14253FEC3C45} failed due to the following error: 800702e4 The requested operation requires elevation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800702E4).
at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeTyp e type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boole an publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)
at ASCOM.Utilities.ChooserForm.CmdProperties_Click(Ob ject eventSender, EventArgs eventArgs) in C:\ASCOM Build\Export\ASCOM.Utilities\ASCOM.Utilities\Choos erForm.cs:line 580
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OK
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I have had no response from ASA. The curious thing is that the ASCOM connection test for Autoslew seems to be ok but ACP and Maxim give the Telescope Chooser error. Ignoring the error gives the ACP response in the second screenshot. Could this be a Win 11 issue?

Any advice would be most appreciated. I currently have a very expensive boat anchor.

Bill Martin