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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1-16-2008 @ 7:04PM
matt said...
Oops, It says that the Treo 600 is not supported, not the treo 650.
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1-16-2008 @ 7:12PM
matt said...
It says the Treo 600, not the Treo 600 on the official site.
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1-16-2008 @ 7:12PM
zelet said...
How the mighty have fallen...
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1-16-2008 @ 10:02PM
Elias said...
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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1-17-2008 @ 12:07AM
Carlos said...
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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1-17-2008 @ 10:27AM
woohoo said...
... And for those using darling Linux there's J-Pilot which works just fine with my Palm TX.
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1-17-2008 @ 2:51PM
Kent said...
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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3-16-2008 @ 7:42PM
Karen said...
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!
2-22-2008 @ 4:02PM
Mary said...
Gee, Elias.
Same thing happened to my Tungsten E2
It wiped out my calendar files on my Desktop as well (:-)
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4-03-2008 @ 5:08PM
feenberg said...
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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