Update: Still having issues with the cable. Have only worked on about 4 cars with VCDS. I am pretty convinced that it is not a cable problem. I still am having the same issue. At times the program will just freeze and crash and I will loose response from controller. This seems to only happen when doing basic settings. It worked pretty good on my car last time I did anything with basic settings on it back in March (see post #17). It froze up intermittently on an 04 Passat I was working on. Worked with no problems on an 07 A4 and worked with no problems on a 99 Passat. I'm sure the vehicles have nothing to do with the problem, I was just stating them for an FYI. Was doing some work today on my 04 A4 and the problem was very bad. I could not do 1 basic setting without the program freezing. One of the times it froze the VCDS program itself just froze, (I could not click any buttons, but also did not get a "program not responding" message either.) The window of VCDS was open but it was as if the program was just not communicating at all. Other programs were working just fine at this time. I have tried re-downloading and re-installing the software numerous times. Any ideas?