I can't guess if you have PalmOne's latest desktop and hotsync. The ones on CD are not a good idea for Vista. Share some exact versions of hotsync and more since I own a Tx and other bluetooth PalmOne units. I'd check my setup when you share versions.
Also tell me about your bluetooth dongle.
Bob
I have a Dell laptop running Vista and equipped with Bluetooth and a Palm TX (which also has Bluetooth). I have set up Palm Desktop to use COM port 6 to hotsynch my Palm, but every time I turn on the Bluetooth adapter on my laptop Palm Desktop notifies me that COM port 6 is in use by another program and can't be used right now. I get the same message on my Palm when it tries to connect to the computer. I set COM port 6 up as an incoming Bluetooth port, just as Palm told me to. The only way to make it work is to delete the port and recreate it every time I want to Hotsync. Is there some way I can restrict access to this port so that Windows only allows Palm Desktop to use that port? Or is Windows already doing this to Palm Desktop?
Thanks.
Jonathan

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