User's Manual

Product Reference Guide

Running ActiveSync

ActiveSync compares the data on your Handheld with the data on your PC, and then updates all locations

with the most recent information. To run ActiveSync using the Grayhill Cable connection, follow these

steps:

• Start ActiveSync on your regular computer.

• Connect the Grayhill Cable, with the Handheld installed inside it, to your PC using the USB cable.

• ActiveSync automatically establishes a connection. This may take several seconds.

• If the PC detects the device but does not connect the Grayhill ghusbsh.inf file may need to be

installed.

• To install the Then ActivSync connects you will be prompted to install a new driver.

• Select the 'Install from a specific location' option and browse to the directory where you put

the ghusbsh.inf

• With a Guest Partnership, ActiveSync will ask if you want to connect using your Guest Partnership

or with a Standard Partnership. If you stay with a Guest Partnership:

• On your regular computer, open Windows Explorer and double-click the Explore icon to view the

file structure on your Handheld.

• In the Explore window, the Handheld file structure looks and acts like the file structure as shown in the Windows

Explorer window on your PC.

• Manually copy and paste files in between the two file structure windows.

• With a Standard Partnership, ActiveSync automatically synchronizes the data types you selected for

synchronization, using any customized settings you chose.

• To change ActiveSync’s data types or settings, click Tools, Options in the ActiveSync program

running on your regular computer.

• Once synchronization has completed, open Windows Explorer and double-click the Explore icon to

view the file structure on your Handheld in order to review the files that ActiveSync has

automatically updated for you.

Disconnecting ActiveSync

To avoid connection problems, disconnect ActiveSync on your Handheld before closing ActiveSync on

your regular computer:

• Tap the ActiveSync connection icon in the lower right corner of the Today screen.

• Tap Disconnect in the dialog that appears.

• Remove the USB cable from the Handheld and from your regular computer.