Palm Desktop 6.2 for Vista finally released
by Brad Linder Jan 16th 2008 at 6:30PM
Palm desktop 6.2 supports the 32-bit version of Windows XP Home, Professional, and Media Center Edition 2005 as well as Vista. But there's no support for Windows 2000, Server, Tablet PC, or 64-bit XP. If you're using XP you might want to hold off on "upgrading" though. There are a few limitations on Palm Desktop 6.2:
- Birthdays and anniversaries will not show up in the Desktop client.
- VersaMail Hotsyncing is no longer supported.
- Color coding of Calendar events is no longer supported.
- Many older Palm devices including the Treo 650 and T5 are no longer officially supported, although some devices may work to some degree.
[via Palm InfoCenter]
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Mary said 4:02PM on 2-22-2008
Gee, Elias.
Same thing happened to my Tungsten E2
It wiped out my calendar files on my Desktop as well (:-)
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feenberg said 5:08PM on 4-03-2008
I installed desktop 6.2 on a vista laptop and then tried to install it on my other computer, an xp machine. I could not get it to work. It crashed immediately after the splash screen came up. I called tech support and spent an hour with a guy there trying to get it to work until finally he was told to forget it, 6.2 doesn't run on xp machines. Yet it's advertised as working on xp machines on the Palm site. Apparently it must work on some xp machines but not others. Still, it's pretty unprofessional to release it for xp under these conditions.
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matt said 7:12PM on 1-16-2008
It says the Treo 600, not the Treo 600 on the official site.
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matt said 7:04PM on 1-16-2008
Oops, It says that the Treo 600 is not supported, not the treo 650.
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zelet said 7:12PM on 1-16-2008
How the mighty have fallen...
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Elias said 10:02PM on 1-16-2008
The installer was a bit buggy (on vista premium) lots of random file access errors and it wanted me to shut down some Windows Media Player service that must be running by default on Vista.
Then on the first hot sync it crashed my Treo 680.
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Carlos said 12:07AM on 1-17-2008
Wow - Palm has some serious issues - that software looks straight out of 1998.
Oh and who needs to remember Birthdays and Anniversaries anyway
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woohoo said 10:27AM on 1-17-2008
... And for those using darling Linux there's J-Pilot which works just fine with my Palm TX.
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Kent said 2:51PM on 1-17-2008
I run Vista Ultimate. Issues I have encountered:
1. I am able to run desktop 6.2 if I "run as administrator"
2. It will only hotsync if I log off as user and then log on as administrator.
3. Periodic crashes of desktop - losing all of my datebook data. I need to backup frequently.
4. Hotsync will frequently duplicate items.
Kent
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Karen said 7:42PM on 3-16-2008
Grrrrrr....
I'm running Vista Ultimate and a Tungsten E2 and after 5 hours of installing and uninstalling trying different things I still can't get the HotSync to work properly. It falls over on the calendar sync, then get a weird clicking noise like a mouse tap-dancing on my roof, and it messes up all sorts of other programmes on my computer too. Can anyone help?? I'm at my wits end!