How to connect a Windows Mobile PDA to Windows 10

Question

Does anyone know how I can get a Windows Mobile 6 5 PDA to connect up to a Windows 10 PC   Before upgrading the PC from Window 8 1 I was able to use Windows Mobile Device Center to link up to the PDA over USB  This allowed me to access files on the PDA via Windows Explorer  access the internet from the PDA over our network and deploy to the PDA via Visual Studio 2008   I had to uninstall Windows Mobile Device Center as part of the Windows 10 installation  as it was flagged as incompatible with Windows 10  I can t seem to find an alternative for Windows 10

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I have managed to get my PDA working properly with Windows 10.

For transparency when I posted the original question I had upgraded a Windows 8.1 PC to Windows 10, I have since moved to using a different PC that had a clean Windows 10 installation.

These are the steps I followed to solve the problem:

First of all I installed Visual Studio 2008.
Then I installed Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3182
Then Windows Mobile 6 Professional and Standard Software Development Kits Refresh
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6135
Then Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17284
Finally I opened up the Mobile Device Center, went to Mobile Device Settings -> Connection Settings and made sure DMA was selected under "Allow connections to one of the following"

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Install   Windows Mobile 6 Professional SDK Refresh Windows Mobile 6 Standard SDK Refresh Windows Mobile 6 5 Professional Developer Tool Kit  USA  Windows Mobile 6 5 Standard Developer Tool Kit  USA   Control Panel   Programs and Features   Add or remove a Windows component   NET Framework 3 5 Check HTTP and non HTTP  Reinstall WMDC observing your platform x64 x86 Services msc   Windows Mobile 2003-based device connectivity   Logon   Local System Allow service to interact with desktop  Restart your PC

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I haven t managed to get WMDC working on Windows 10  it hanged on splash screen upon start   so I ve finally uninstalled it  But now I have a Portable Devices   Compact device in the Device Manager and I can browse my Windows Compact 7 device within Windows Explorer  All my apps using RAPI also work  Maybe this is the result of installing uninstalling WMDC  or probably this functionality was already presented on Windows 10 and I ve just overlooked it initially

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Here is the answer  Download the  Windows Mobile Device Center  for your machine type  likely 64bit  http   www microsoft com download en details aspx displaylang en amp id 3182  Before you run the install  change the compatibility settings to  Windows 7   Then install it    Then run it  You ll find it under  WMDC    Your device should now recognize  when plugged in  mine did

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Install Windows Mobile Device Center for your architecture   It will install older versions of  NET if needed   In USB to PC settings on device uncheck Enable advanced network and tap OK  This worked for me on 2 different Windows 10 PCs

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Unfortunately the Windows Mobile Device Center stopped working out of the box after the Creators Update for Windows 10  The application won t open and therefore it s impossible to get the sync working  In order to get it running now we need to modify the ActiveSync registry settings  Create a BAT file with the following contents and run it as administrator   REG ADD HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services RapiMgr  v SvcHostSplitDisable  t REG DWORD  d 1  f REG ADD HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services WcesComm  v SvcHostSplitDisable  t REG DWORD  d 1  f   Restart the computer and everything should work

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Had the same problem   Came across an article from Zebra with the fix that worked for me   Open services msc Go to Windows Mobile-2003-based device connectivity Right click Windows Mobile-2003-based device connectivity and click Properties Go to Log On Tab Choose Local System Account    Click Apply Go to General Tab Press Stop and wait Once stopped  press Start Press OK Restart your PC Retry the Windows Mobile Device Center  Original article can be found here

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