Something else on this "idriver.exe" thing.

Today, my wireless connection was kind of weird and balky and I wanted to
restart the tablet. During shutdown, Windows put up its little "Ending
Program" box where it asks you if you want to end the program, whatever it
is, now or wait for it to close. Usually, I don't know what the hell it's
talking about, since I've already closed everything I know anything about.

Anyway, I noticed that it ID'd the program it was talking about as
"idriver.exe". Hmmm. So, I cancelled out of the End Program box and went
to Task Manager. Figured it must be running, since Windows wanted to shut
it down. But in the Task Manager "Processes" long list, it was not there,
not once.

Could it be that, for some reason, this particular program is runnning but
not showing up in my Task Manager? Maybe it WAS there when I was trying to
install Palm Desktop but my Task Manager just didn't show it?

mack
austin


"Steve S" <SteveS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D273C3F0-CF75-4A69-B5C8-810BBA1B0969@microsoft.com...
> Mack: Just a note to let you know that I've had the same problem on my
> tablet, an ST5022. In my case, I solved it by shutting down idriver.exe
> as
> recommended in the PalmOne FAQ's. The Palm installer then finished
> normally
> and closed. As to why you didn't find at least one instance of
> idriver.exe
> in your task list, I'm puzzled. It should have been there.
>
> HOWEVER, you are correct that even if you don't do this, simply closing
> the
> installer when it freezes will result in a workable copy of Palm Desktop
> on
> your tablet. It simply doesn't delete the backup files. So either course
> of
> action is OK.
>
> The bigger question is WHY DOESN'T PALM SUPPORT XP ?!?!??!! I've never
> been
> impressed by Palm software, and this is a perfect example of why!
>
> "Mack McKinnon" wrote:
>
>> Thought I would pass this along regarding installing Palm Desktop on my
>> Fujitsu ST 5020. I found that the installer would run along nicely,
>> apparently having no problem, but then would freeze. It would not close
>> and tell me it was
>> finished.
>> mack
>> austin
>>
>>
>>