Inactive Synch
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A few days ago, I decided to sync my (Mobile 5.0) PDA with my (XP) workstation at home. I hadn't done it for a few days but it had always worked properly before so I wasn't prepared for what happened. I put the PDA in the cradle, and ActiveSync sprung into life. After whirring and clunking for a while, it informed me it was having a problem connecting to my PDA. After a quick google, I checked the new ActiveSync Troubleshooter, which informed me that my problem was that I had ZoneAlarm activated. This confused me because I don't have ZoneAlarm installed. Over the next few days, I tried all sorts of things. I installed and uninstalled ZoneAlarm; I uninstalled, downloaded and re-installed ActiveSync; I googled, clustied and asked everyone and everything I could think of. I searched my pc for vsmon.exe, unsuccessfully. I cleaned up my registry from top to tail. I rebooted my pc a dozen times or more. I consulted my local pc repair place who suggested switching off my virus checker, which I did, alsong with my (Windows native) firewall. All to no avail. Finally, out of sheer desperation, I performed a hard reset on my PDA which - naturally - worked!! Troubleshooter was doubly wrong - firstly in telling me that the problem was with ZoneAlarm when I don't have it installed; and secondly, to infer the problem was with my pc when it was actually with my PDA. Grrrrrrr.
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A few days ago, I decided to sync my (Mobile 5.0) PDA with my (XP) workstation at home. I hadn't done it for a few days but it had always worked properly before so I wasn't prepared for what happened. I put the PDA in the cradle, and ActiveSync sprung into life. After whirring and clunking for a while, it informed me it was having a problem connecting to my PDA. After a quick google, I checked the new ActiveSync Troubleshooter, which informed me that my problem was that I had ZoneAlarm activated. This confused me because I don't have ZoneAlarm installed. Over the next few days, I tried all sorts of things. I installed and uninstalled ZoneAlarm; I uninstalled, downloaded and re-installed ActiveSync; I googled, clustied and asked everyone and everything I could think of. I searched my pc for vsmon.exe, unsuccessfully. I cleaned up my registry from top to tail. I rebooted my pc a dozen times or more. I consulted my local pc repair place who suggested switching off my virus checker, which I did, alsong with my (Windows native) firewall. All to no avail. Finally, out of sheer desperation, I performed a hard reset on my PDA which - naturally - worked!! Troubleshooter was doubly wrong - firstly in telling me that the problem was with ZoneAlarm when I don't have it installed; and secondly, to infer the problem was with my pc when it was actually with my PDA. Grrrrrrr.