PDA Street: Getting Palm Desktop Working on Vista

In the user discussion forum over on PDAStreet.com, member Eric Wendel posted some tips for getting Palm Desktop to HotSync with Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.

Correction: Hotsync via USB *does* work
Immediately after submitting my previous post I was staring at the hotsync shortcut's properties (right-click on the "start" menu button, select Open, select Programs, select Startup, right-click on Hotsync and select Properties).
Turns out that on the Compatibility tab, ticking the "run this program in compatibility mode for XP SP2" checkbox, even without also ticking "run as an administrator", then hotsync sees USB, and better still hotsyncs work. Woo hoo!

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