Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Enabling PalmDesktop for a multi-user Windows installation

According to this post, the synchronization software for PalmOS devices under Windows "needs to be installed with the user logged on. This is a profile specific program". To avoid re-installing the program for each user:
  1. login with the user for which the program is currently installed;
  2. with regedit export the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\US Robotics\ to a file, like palmdesktopenable.reg;
  3. logout and then login with the user who wants to be enabled;
  4. run regedit /s path\to\exported\key\palmdesktopenable.reg;
  5. close and quit HotSync;
  6. re-run HotSync.
Now you can synchronize and use PalmDesktop without getting the error message "Invalid Configuration - Terminating the Palm Desktop".