Windows XP Home File Protections Prevent Sync

Question

I have a Palm Vx, and have used it since 1999 with the same PC (!) which was converted many years ago to Windows XP. I just bought a newer computer, also running XP Home. I have had a lot of trouble installing software on it because my ancient computer had a FAT32 file system on it, and the new one is NTFS. Apparently, FAT32 had no bit for setting the read-only attribute for files, so any account could read and write almost anywhere.
Now, I have installed my Palm 3.1 desktop (I also tried 4.1.4). As long as I have Administrator privileges, everything works great. But if I use a limited account, I cannot get to my profile. When I try to hotsync, it asks if I want to create a new account on the PC, and when I do, it completes the hotsync but cannot access the profile.
 There doesn't seem to be any way with XP Home to cause read-only files to be made readable - this is a well-known bug that was never fixed (even using attrib does not work). Is there any way to tell the software to put the profiles in another folder that is writeable?
Post relates to: Palm Vx

Answer 1

Thanks! That works after some playing around. The additional part I discovered you need is this:
1) Give your user account admin rights
2) Install the Palm Desktop logged in as that user
3) Make sure the Admin account (not necessarily the user account) on the computer has a password
4) Set the options for palm.exe (right-click on palm.exe, under Properties...) so that it can execute as another user
5) Take away the admin rights to the user account
Now, when starting the desktop, it should ask if it should run as you or another user. Leave the box checked to run as you, but uncheck the box "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity." The desktop will then come up and XP/Home protections have been circumvented. Set the program directory to a writeable folder,and a hotsync will work and the data will appear in the desktop.
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