Installing Palm Desktop

[Tony Lambregts]

James Liggett wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> I figured out how to install Palm Desktop, perhaps this might prove
> useful to someone:
> 
> 1. Install native Windows Installer manually. To do this, install dcom98
> first. Then run instmsia.exe. The install will complain, but it will
> leave behind all the files you need in Windows\Installer\InstMsi0. Copy
> all the files in there to Windows\system, and set msi.dll and
> msiexec.exe to native.
> 
> 2. Install Windows Script 5.6. You can download it from here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a8a18f6-249c-4a72-bfcf-fc6af26dc390&DisplayLang=en
> Keep in mind that it's the English version though. To install it, set
> setupapi to builtin and run the file.
> 
> 3. Run Palm Desktop setup like normal, and it will install everything
> you need. 
> 
> Of course, running palm desktop is a different story (there is a crash
> in WinMM that stops it from running.) I'm currently working on getting
> Hotsync to work with my USB cradle using the visor driver, but there's
> some problems with that. I'll post a dump of the messages I get and see
> if I can make something happen. Thanks for the help :).
> 
> 
What version of Palm Desktop is this? This would make a great howto, I would add 
it to the proper version myself if I knew the version.

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