I know there are those of you that have had success with this == connecting and syncing a PDA/smartphone with Outlook on Vista/Windows 7. So, what is the trick to making it connect reliably? I get one connection and sync per installation of the Windows Mobile Device Center software. I can remove WMDC and reinstall and finally get it to connect and sync. I remove the device and try again later - with or without a reboot - and Nothing. No connection and no recognition of the device. The device is a 2 year-old HTC 8525 with WM5 that has been reliably connecting and syncing with an XP box for 2+ years. At least I can get some kind of communications with Win7. That's a huge improvement over Vista with which I NEVER got a connection at all. With XPpro the connections were pretty consistent, and whenever it lost connectivity, I just had to reboot both devices and it would re-establish a connection and function normally for while again. Nothing seems to help WMDC get going again - short of a removal and reinstallatin of the whole thing. The device shows in the WMDC app but flat refuses to do anything with it.
This should not be this difficult - I'm sure I'm just missing some kind of setting change and all will be well. I just can't seem to stumble on what to change. Do I have to bump the device up to WM6 or WM6.1 to get this to work? /Rant Why can't Microsoft get this right? For $#!* sake, they wrote both halves of the software and even they can't make the, never to be cursed enough, thing work. Can you tell the frustration level is climbing? This kind of crap never happened in the ten years I was running Palm devices. (even though Palm had major digitizer issues) /rant off Any help would be greatly appreciated as the XP box is in dire need of a rebuild and I really would like to go to W7. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
