The 1701 uses the baofeng cps v1.05 software, a prolific driver will not work with the programming lead that is used by the 1701, the cable is a straight through lead and does not have a prolific or any other chip in the cable, the 1701 has it's own built in chip set, you will not see a com in the com port section in the windows device manager, you will actually see the device list in the usb section of the device manager, there appears to be 2 drivers for the 1701 one is named dpinst_amd64.exe and the other is dpinst_ia64.exe, i think one is for an amd motherboard the other dpinst_ai64.exe is for an intel chipset motherboard, I used the AMD one and had no issues when using windows 10 or windows 11, find the files i use attached to this post, inside are the software files (cps) and the driver folder, try one of the dpinst_amd64 or dpinst_ia64 drivers, if one fails try the other, make sure you are not using a programming cable with a prolific or FTDI circuit on it, you must used the straight through lead. the lead you need is the one in the picture attached