Is there a free program I can get, to receive and send faxes directly from my computer, by connecting it to a phone line?

I have windows vista home premium.

I have Windows Vista Home Premium and XP Home in two partitions of my hard disk. I use this modem ‘ZTE ZXDSL 852′

for my ADSL connection. And I found out that the modem is not compatible with windows Vista (luckily I have XP too)

because, when I install the modem driver and plug it into one of my USB ports while using Vista, a blue screen

appears with a huge message on it which I don’t understand a bit. But, at the bottom of the screen, it says ‘Memory

Dumping and Restarting 3…2…1′ RESTARTS!

But with Windows XP Home, it work with no error.

Can someone help me with this issue? Or find me a link to download a driver of the modem made for Vista? Nothing’s

wrong with the hardware coz it works with XP very well with out a single error like I told you!

Please HELP!

Hi, I just got this HP with windows vista home premium, which is a
huge mistake, as I later found out that there is no microsoft fax
software installed like the XP version. I went ahead to download the
Delrina Winfax Lite freeware from the web and installed it on my vista
machine. However, my fax modem is using COM8 port and the winfax lite
freeware can only do com1,2, 3, 4. Somehow this software can not go
beyond the com4. I wonder if anyone has the same problem or has some
suggestions to this problem? Thanks!

I bought HP PC with Windows Vista Home Premium with modem installed but no software. I have searched every where to find the software to run the fax modem without success. I also installed a different modem that I have with software but did not work either. If someone knows where to download the proper software to run the fax modem with windows vista please let me know.

Thanks everyone very much!
The modem that came with the computer is PCI Soft Data Fax Modem with smartCP and the one that I installed is Smart Link 56K Voice Modem COM4.

Thank you for your quick response!