[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Installation of Files with Missing Sync (New version)

[Mike Deleon]

Hi everyone,

Here's my biggest gripe so far with owning a PocketPC.. Installing  
programs!  For whatever reason, active sync won't install on Virtual  
PC (It always hangs on something called 'microsoft' at 92%  
completion).  So I can't get at the .exe files to find what I need to  
install.

I was successfully able to get Mapopolis on for my GPS needs (Thank  
god I could do that) - All I had to do was install the voices  
manually which was easy enough.

Essentially, only vendors who could get me a .cab worked.  When I try  
the .exe thing, it's a no go since most of the time, it needs  
activesync installed.  Places like handango usually have .exe files.   
Sigh...

I don't know what to do!  Currently, I'm trying to check out SPB  
Pocket Plus 2.5 and I've already contacted them for a .cab file but  
no reply yet (sent yesterday afternoon).  I want to try out some  
games on the PPC just to see how the quality is compared to my Treo  
650 and well, all .exe installers... Why do they make them  
installable only from windows?  There should just be a pocketpc type  
of installer so you just sync that file over (like the .cab), tap on  
it on PPC and boom, it installs.  How does everyone here get their  
programs installed?  Oh yeah, I want to upgrade my ROM too... I guess  
I can't... Is using a friends computer okay (I'd want to do so  
without putting my personal info on his/her computer through  
synching) - perhaps in a guest mode just for installing?  In that  
case, I can just bring my USB microdrive with the .exe files on them.

Any ideas?

Mike