"Steph Peters" <xda@sandbenders.demon.co.uk.delete.invalid> wrote in message
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> You are totally stuck, because Active Sync will ONLY sync when run by an
> administrator account. It just will not work properly without. This
> behaviour has been known for a long time, and Microsoft have been asked to
> change it, but they never did. And now that ActiveSync has been
> superseded
> by Windows Mobile Device Centre in Vista, they definitely aren't going to.

Steph,

Thanks for the information. I wasn't able to find it Googling.

I did know that embeddedVisualStudio had to be run as Administrator. This
was because they saved the state in HKLM instead of HKCU. This was an
error, of course, but they wouldn't fix it then. It's probably the same
folks.

Given that that running as Administrator is a security problem, you would
think Microsoft would be more concerned. My employer recently had a severe
incident that shut down the computers for a whole division. A major cause
for the severity of the problem was that most of the uses in that division
were running as administrator all the time (as I do). They are now planning
to not let anyone run as administrator. When I tried that, I had more
problems than this one.

I use Vista and Windows Mobile Device Center at home. It works with my PPC
2003 device (which is still working just fine). It actually works better
than ActiveSync. The employer is not planning to switch to Vista any time
soon, however, so I have a problem. The main reason for using the PPC is to
keep the two desktops synced.

I suppose Microsoft won't be making Windows Mobile Device Center work on XP
either.

Thanks, and sorry for the delayed response,

-Ken