Hi Septillion.
Before i connect the Arduino to my PC there is only COM 1 showing in the Tools menu, when i plug in the Arduino my PC sometimes picks it up and sometimes it does not, i have 4 Uno's and all have been given different com ports by the PC at times.
Yesterday i borrowed a friends laptop, i downloaded the latest IDE from the Arduino web site, i then one by one tried out all 4 UNO's one worked immediately and the PC designated it has COM port 8, i do have 8 com ports, what's going on i wonder?
Ray