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From: Sherry on 20 Dec 2007 14:16
I've had my M515 for years but the Vista compatible software won't work
with that Palm. I still have my XP computer and have been hot synching
on that.

I just got a TX, which I will be able to hot sync on my Vista computer.
Now the trick is figuring out how to make the switch.

I hot synched my M515 on the XP computer (Palm Desktop 4.1.4) and then
tried to copy the files over to the TX. Oops.... error message, messed
up Palm Desktop until I rebooted and the TX went into a loop that was
next to impossible to stop (I couldn't believe how long I had to hold the
button in!)

I have Palm Desktop v4.2 on the Vista (I *hate* Vista -it won't let me
run that as a user - I have to select "Run as Administrator" and I can
only change the hot sync settings if I go into my Administrator account,
but that's another story).

My understanding is that the M515 won't hot synch under that version, but
I may be reading the Palm page wrong.

So what can I move over from the XP computer to the Vista computer so I
can hot sync? (I'm on a home network so moving things is easy).

I know I'll have to reinstall my third-party apps (and one at a time,
making sure each one works on the TX)

Vista is going to stuff anything I hot synch into the stupid Virtual
Store if Palm is installed to c:\Program Files so I installed it to c:
\Palm.

Suggested needed!

Thanks,
Sherry
From: Richard Thomas on 23 Dec 2007 23:25
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:16:35 -0600, Sherry
<Hot.Rod.Wife(a)REMOVE-THIS-XXgmail.com> wrote:

>Suggested needed!

You might try virtualization. Or maybe one of the open source versions
also runs on Windows.

We were having problems caused by Palm's Sync software not behaving
properly under Windows XP (for similar reasons that it won't run under
Vista) two years ago. Palm has had ages to set things right. Just more
signs of the rot I guess. Hasn't been a problem for a while though.
Everyone's gone to Blackberries.

Rich
>
>Thanks,
>Sherry

--
If you squeeze my lizard
I'll put my snake on you
I'm a romantic adventure
And I'm a reptile too
From: davegb on 31 Dec 2007 16:35
On Dec 20, 12:16 pm, Sherry <Hot.Rod.W...(a)REMOVE-THIS-XXgmail.com>
wrote:
> I've had my M515 for years but the Vista compatible software won't work
> with that Palm.  I still have my XP computer and have been hot synching
> on that.
>
> I just got a TX, which I will be able to hot sync on my Vista computer.  
> Now the trick is figuring out how to make the switch.
>
> I hot synched my M515 on the XP computer (Palm Desktop 4.1.4) and then
> tried to copy the files over to the TX.  Oops.... error message, messed
> up Palm Desktop until I rebooted and the TX went into a loop that was
> next to impossible to stop (I couldn't believe how long I had to hold the
> button in!)
>
> I have Palm Desktop v4.2 on the Vista (I *hate* Vista -it won't let me
> run that as a user - I have to select "Run as Administrator" and I can
> only change the hot sync settings if I go into my Administrator account,
> but that's another story).
>
> My understanding is that the M515 won't hot synch under that version, but
> I may be reading the Palm page wrong.
>
> So what can I move over from the XP computer to the Vista computer so I
> can hot sync? (I'm on a home network so moving things is easy).
>
> I know I'll have to reinstall my third-party apps (and one at a time,
> making sure each one works on the TX)
>
> Vista is going to stuff anything I hot synch into the stupid Virtual
> Store if Palm is installed to c:\Program Files so I installed it to c:
> \Palm.
>
> Suggested needed!
>
> Thanks,
> Sherry

Sorry, I don't have any answers to your problems. But it makes sense
that you'd have them. Gates and M$ have been sabotaging competing
software and OS's for years. I wouldn't be the least surprised if
Vista is designed not to be compatible with Palm devices, which are
competitors to Windoze Mobile. If they can't develop a competant
competitor, they can sure sabotage the competition with their OS!
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