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?

Answer 1

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"