Palm sync in Vista

I am posting after catching just the very tail end of a thread on this
general topic, in the hope that what I have discovered might be of help
to someone else. I use a Palm m515, which is getting pretty long in the
tooth, and for years it sync'ed (sunced?) just fine on XP. Now running
Vista Palm Desktop version 4 is required, which is available as a
freeware download from the Palm website. The release notes on the Palm
website say that sync works OK, but on Vista the "Quick Install" will
not function. What I have discovered is that if UAC is turned off in
Vista Quick Install works just fine. Anyone considering turning UAC off
for this or any other reason should first aquaint themselves with the
various ramifications of doing that naturaly, but it is an option for
owners of older Palms.

So my venerable old Palm m515 syncs, quick installs, and does everything
just fine in Vista now, thank goodness. Since turning off UAC even my
older registered version of Docs to Go works fine on Vista too.

I hope this catches anyone having trouble getting their older Palm to do
what they need on Vista.

--
Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
compulsive computer fiddler.

Won't the Palm 6.2 for Vista work for the 515?
--
Sam


"Peter in New Zealand" wrote:

> I am posting after catching just the very tail end of a thread on this
> general topic, in the hope that what I have discovered might be of help
> to someone else. I use a Palm m515, which is getting pretty long in the
> tooth, and for years it sync'ed (sunced?) just fine on XP. Now running
> Vista Palm Desktop version 4 is required, which is available as a
> freeware download from the Palm website. The release notes on the Palm
> website say that sync works OK, but on Vista the "Quick Install" will
> not function. What I have discovered is that if UAC is turned off in
> Vista Quick Install works just fine. Anyone considering turning UAC off
> for this or any other reason should first aquaint themselves with the
> various ramifications of doing that naturaly, but it is an option for
> owners of older Palms.
>
> So my venerable old Palm m515 syncs, quick installs, and does everything
> just fine in Vista now, thank goodness. Since turning off UAC even my
> older registered version of Docs to Go works fine on Vista too.
>
> I hope this catches anyone having trouble getting their older Palm to do
> what they need on Vista.
>
> --
> Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
> Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
> compulsive computer fiddler.
>