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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.



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Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)

Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and

compulsive computer fiddler.



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