If I recall, your programming cable has a WCH CH340 USB-to-Serial chip. I can remember a few years have an issue with a programming cable with CH340 chip. My solution was to download and install the latest driver from the chip vendor's website to replace the one that was installed by Windows. So now when I setup a Windows computer that has never use with a programming cable before, I go ahead and install the latest FTDI, Silicon Labs and WCH drivers from each chip vendor. Then I install the old Prolific v3.2.0.0 driver. Then only after that is done, I finally plug in the programming cable.
