zachriggle

In another thread, I attempted to show my displeasure with ActiveSync since installing 4.0/4.1. I have several questions:

1.) Is it possible to roll-back/downgrade (without System Restore) to ActiveSync 3?

2.) ActiveSync 3.7 (on the Dell CD) installed just fine, with no issues. It even shows up in the tray, with the little icon. Hell, it even says 'connected' when you hover over the icon. However, double-clicking on the icon does nothing. I'm assuming that the .exe just crashes (the error logs were posted in my other thread).
Has anybody else had this problem? How was it remedied? I have installed/uninstalled in every combination under the moon, rebooting between each step, so that's definitely NOT the problem.
Manually launching CEAPPMGR.exe or WCESMGR.EXE have no effect (CEAPPMGR.exe shows for a split second, then closes; WCESMGR.exe is the program called when double-clicking the tray icon, it has no noticable effect).

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Important Update
wcesetup.log has some interesting entires. In particular,


Copying static files to C:\WINDOWS\system32\
CEUTIL.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
RAPI.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
MOBILEV.ACM - replaced
Copying static files to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\NoteSync Forms
FORMDLL.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
INKFORM.EXE - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
INKPROPS.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
INKX.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
VOICEBAR.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
VOICEFRM.EXE - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
VCOMCTL.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
Copying self-reg files to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\NoteSync Forms
VCOMCTL.DLL - WARNING: not copied (old ver = 4.1.4807.0, source ver = 3.7.1.4034)
...
Configuring communications
CTapi: TAPI lineInitialize error 0x80000048
WARNING: Could not configure communications - TAPI error

I'm going to uninstall ActiveSync, reboot, then reboot into safe mode and attempt to remove these files from my system. Hopefully that will have some effect.

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UPDATE 2!!!!

Boom-shaka-laka. For all of those who have installed ActiveSync 4, but are unable to go back (like me... from the looks of things, I think I may be an isolated incident), this is the path to freedome: Uninstall all forms of AS. Reboot into safe mode. Remove the following files/folders:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CEUTIL.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RAPI.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MOBILEV.ACM
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\NoteSync Forms (the whole folder... or you can just rename it to "NoteSync Forms_bak" like I did).

( Mods forgive me for having two concurrent, related threads, but I feel that these are different enough to warrant different threads).