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What would be the easiest way to boot to xp in order to sync my palm pilot? I have win7-64 on my w510.

Find a cheap system on eBay that already has a working XP installation?

Seriously though, are you thinking something along the lines of dual-booting the W510? If so, I've got no experience in doing something like that. Other solutions might involve running WinXP in a virtual machine but I think that's far away from being the "easiest" (or cheapest). On some of my older machines I had Palm Desktop for syncing my now-unused Palm Zire 71s.

Ran across this on a quick Google about Palm desktop PIM Windows 7 64: http://forum.brighthand.com/sync-window ... 2-a-3.html

So I'm not the last guy to use a Palm Pilot.<G>

I'm not using it on this machine but expect the easiest way would be to open a Win/XP Virtual Machine, assuming you have that option enabled in your version of Win7. I don't think you'd need to do a dual boot.

I last used the Palm Desktop under Vista (32 bit) with only one issue. Palm's last "beta" of the desktop software worked just fine, but their release version only half worked. The incremental numbering on the two sometimes is the same, so if the version you have doesn't quite work, check for other legacy archives of it.

Android still hasn't caught up with what Palm used to do. Those kids at Google should be ashamed of themselves.