Windows 7 64-bit Palm Desktop HotSync USB - Treo 700p

I recently upgraded my father's computer to Windows 7 Pro x64. Everything worked flawlessly, except the missing 64bit driver for his Palm phone.

Aparently this is a known and accepted issue by palm. Their answer is to sync over Bluetooth. Which my father's computer doesn't have. So, what to do...

Off to Google it is! I found this super great article which solved the problem.
  • Download and install Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 here.
  • Install two updates, and fire up the XP Virtual Machine.
  • Install the Palm Desktop software from within the XP virtual machine.
  • Use the USB Device management window to grab the Palm device from Windows 7 to Windows XP. This can be a bit tricky, but plugging in the phone, pushing the Sync button on the cord, and then connecting (in the USB Management window) the USB device to Windows XP seemed to work. The two OSs will fight over the device, until the HotSync starts. At which point Windows 7 will stop trying to install a driver it doesn't have, and let Windows XP do its thing.
  • Read up on the integration mode stuff that the Windows XP mode offers, this allows you to put a shortcut on the Windows 7 desktop that will launch only the Palm Desktop software instead of showing you the entire Windows XP desktop to do your sync.
Hope this helps someone else out there! Its not as nice of a solution as straight USB into Windows 7, or using Bluetooth, but it works!

Back to my iPhone :-P

Email me with any questions.

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