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Posted by V Green on March 9, 2008, 10:32 am
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> My WMDC has stopped working when trying to Sync to my Dell Axim. When the
> Axim is placed in the cradle you hear the "thunk" sound from the USB finding
> the device. when you try to open WMDC you get about 10 seconds of the
> "spinning ring" on the mouse cursor and then nothing. Event viewer has the
> following errors:
>
> Failed to start the Windows Mobile-based device connectivity service due to
> EnableRAPIMgr(0x80070005) failure (see data for failure code).
>
> which is followed by this information note:
>
> Windows Mobile-based device connectivity service shutdown.
>
>
> I've tried everyting, repairing the WMDC, reinstalling the WMDC, rolling
> back to a restore point prior to the problem starting. nothing seems to fix
> the problem. One other thing to note and I'm not ssure it's related but
> Windows media center stopped working about the same time as WMDC stopped
> working.
>
This is a pretty big clue. You probably got & applied another
broken Windows Update patch. MS is pushing out so many of
these because Vista is so broken that they aren't putting any
time at all into testing them.
Try a system restore to approximately before things went south.
> Any ideas would be great.
>
>
> --
> Brad
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