I'm pretty sure there's another way to sort out the aliases.
I'll have to make way for someone with more information on this. There may be some simple ini file manipulation which will get what you want done (I believe it might be in VISAconf.ini somewhere on your PC).
Actually I remember editing this file myself before and it worked fine.
On my PC, the file is under \VXIpnp\WinNT\NiVisa\ and it has an "Aliases" section which can easily be modified manually.
[ALIASES]
Alias0 = "'LPT1','ASRL10::INSTR'"
Alias1 = "'COM2','ASRL2::INSTR'"
Alias2 = "'COM1','ASRL1::INSTR'"
Alias3 = "'COM3','ASRL3::INSTR'"
Alias4 = "'COM4','ASRL4::INSTR'"
Alias5 = "'COM5','ASRL5::INSTR'"
Alias6 = "'COM6','ASRL6::INSTR'"
Alias7 = "'COM7','ASRL7::INSTR'"
NumAliases = 8
Shane.
Using LV 6.1 and 8.2.1 on W2k (SP4) and WXP (SP2)