palm.exe.manifest

Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (More info?)

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:32:17 -0500, "Jackson" <jlmeehan@charter.net> spewed
forth these words of wisdom:

>I have Tungsten T3, Windows XP. I use Outlook for sync to contacts,
>calendar, etc.
>
>Just the other night I had Palm Desktop open. Tonight I cannot open it and
>I also cannot find the file PALM.EXE. However I do now have
>PALM.EXE.MANIFEST where the old PALM.EXE used to be. Can I just remove the
>'MANIFEST" extension to make the desktop appear?
>

No, a manifest file is merely an XML file that Windows XP uses to apply special
effects to the user interfaces of older programs. The name is always in the form
AppName.exe.manifest.

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