{"id":23172,"date":"2025-08-14T07:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:59:00","slug":"how-to-update-modes-in-tech2win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/how-to-update-modes-in-tech2win\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Update Modes in Tech2Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Update Modes in Tech2Win<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Start Tech2Win<\/p>\n<p>If Tech2Win is not already running, start the program from the desktop by clicking on the Tech2Win start symbol or from the start menu: Start &gt;&gt; Programs &gt;&gt; General Motors &gt;&gt; Tech2Win.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Perform a Software Download from TIS2Web<\/p>\n<p>Perform a Tech2 software download from TIS2Web as if downloading to a Tech2. This will activate your license and update your QuickStart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/goods-10563-GM-Tech2-Tech-2-GM-Scanner.html\">Tech2 software<\/a> to the current version.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Select Custom Update Mode<\/p>\n<p>When performing the download, use the update mode \u2018Custom\u2019 instead of \u2018Standard\u2019 to overwrite the demonstration software with the newest diagnostic software.<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Specify the COM Port<\/p>\n<p>Use \u2018Search\u2019 as the COM Port or specify the COM Port you chose Tech2Win to create. On the Tech2Win screen, you should see the familiar blocks running from left to right, similar to Tech2.<br \/>\nStep 5: Save Your Configuration<\/p>\n<p>Save your configuration by pressing the \u201cSave\u201d button at the lower left of the configuration screen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Update Modes in Tech2Win Step 1: Start Tech2Win If Tech2Win is not already running, start the program from<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1832,2255],"tags":[3597],"views":982,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23175,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions\/23175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obd2tool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}