Lumsdoni

Lismore Systems have released Guest PC 1.8 with USB support.

I installed this yesterday with Windows 2000 and then instelled Outlook 2002 and Activesync 4.1 and bingo! My Axim x51v WM5 synced with outlook and more importantly I was able to install software from the desktop without the need for .cab file shenanigans.

But, beware, it is a little slower than VPC, and make sure you let everything install in order, as it takes ages to finish.

Syncing is sluggish but works, I didn't get time to test it thoroughly as I didn't have time to setup my exchange servers and myriad of pop3 accounts but all my contacts appeared in outlook.

I couldn't get browse device to work, but for file transfers on a mac, use Softtick's Card Export II, now supports read and write on x51v.

I had an issue installing Win2k SP3.. Corrupt msgina.dll file. This was fixed by downloading SP4 on a pc at work, winzip extracting the files and copying to the mac.

Close down guest pc and find the data file in documents. Double clicking the pc file will mount the pc hard drive on the mac.

Copy the new msgina.dll file into /widows/winnt/system32 and you are up and running.

Lots of testing to do but at least now you can install non .cab files and hopefully any ROM updates if they occur.

I did all this on an Emac, 1ghz, 1Gb ram, 15gb free space.

I also installed XP ok but had no time to check it. It seemed slow.

Will update on compatibility with Nokia PC Suite and Garmin later.

Please pm me with any questions. I am no expet so this should work for most people.

Lumsdoni

I should also add their customer support by email is swift, helpful and polite.