Recently, a new staff member started at Lifehacker. She booted up her brandnew, companyissued MacBook Pro, and went to plug in her EarPods to listen to some tunes. I got the same problem today and I tried everything as you had done. Finally I found that the problem was caused by the IETab extension for Firefox. Windows Mobile Device Cannot Connect or Quickly Disconnect or Drop and Not Sync with Vista WMDC Active. SyncWhenever user connect a Windows Mobile device to Windows Vista Windows Mobile Device Center WMDC via a USB cable, WMDC fails to connect to the Pocket PC PPC Phone device, causing synchronization not start or fail. Sometimes, WMDC may tries to connect to mobile device with Connecting message for a while, but eventually fails with Disconnected message. In some worse case, Windows Vista doesnt detect any Windows Mobile device been connected, and no response or connect attempt action in WMDC. In Device Manager, Windows Mobile based device driver under Portable Devices and Microsoft Mobile Device Remote Adapter local area network connection under Network Adapters appear briefly before missing or disappearing again. Any connection established is terminated, dropped, disconnected, vanished and disappeared within a few seconds. Open A Port In Vista Firewall Firefox Extension' title='Open A Port In Vista Firewall Firefox Extension' />Firefox users bouncing between work and personal accounts on a daily basis are probably tired of logging in and out, or switching accounts. Thanks to the new and. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Youre currently subscribed to some eWEEK features and just need to create a username and password. Welcome. Welcome to the BigBlueButton projects Frequently Asked Questions FAQ. We the core developers created this FAQ to quickly answer common questions. How to Disable Windows Vista CD or DVD Drive Auto Eject or Open Feature 64bit x64 MUI Language Packs for Windows Vista SP1 Unofficial Download Links Use OnScreen. Thunderbird is a free email application thats easy to set up and customize and its loaded with great features Microsoft. The fiercely competitive software giant is positioning its wares for cloud computing with software and services. The companys two cash cows operating. When the connection is not established, user cannot or unable to sync the PC with desktop, and cant install applications or transfer files. Soft reset or hard reset the device also does not help to perfectly fix the problem. Microsoft publishes several troubleshooting tips to fix device unable to connec issue. One of the cause appears to be Windows Live One. Care that blocks the device connectivity. To allow the device to connect via Windows Live One. Care, enable check the Active. SyncWindows Mobile Device Center synchronize my mobile devices with my computer rule in Firewall Connection Tool button Firewall tab of Windows Live One. Care settings. Also in Firewall Tab, click on Advanced button and go to Ports and Protocols tab. Add and create a port called Windows Mobile Device Center with TCP Port Range as 5. For Connections dropdown as Inbound local ports and Scope is set to Local network subnet. Other possible cause in failure to connect to WMDC is due to driver installation may not have completed successfully. If you think this may be the case, follow these steps Keep the WM device connected. Go to Start Start Search. Enter Device Manager or devmgmt. Device Manager window. Microsoft Student Download Windows 7 Sp1 Iso File. Look under the Network adapters node for Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter. If this is not present, skip to step 5. Otherwise, right click Microsoft Windows Mobile Remote Adapter and choose to Uninstall. Look under the Mobile Devices node for Microsoft USB Sync. If this is not present, skip to step 6. Otherwise, right click Microsoft USB Sync and choose to Uninstall. Disconnect and reconnect the WM device. The device driver for the PPC Phone will re install and Windows Mobile Device Center will launch. If Microsoft resolution doesnt help, try to disable the Advanced Network Functionality mode on the Windows Mobile device from the USB to PC icon in Connections of Start Menu Settings. After turning off Advanced Network Functionality, the device will be connected via a USB Serial driver, the sync will be done via native Smartphone USB Sync device driver and no LAN network connection is made. However, the most likely and most possible resolution for dropped connection and not connected problem for Windows Mobile Device Center is related to Windows Media Player process. On connection with a Windows Mobile device, system will launch wmplayer. Windows Media Player is not ran or opened, and user is not syncing any music, song or media files at internal memory storage or SD memory card. The wmplayer. exe process for unknown reason will terminate the connection, according to experience of a few users. As wmplayer. exe process wont terminate itself, user have to end and kill the process as fast as possible once the Pocket PC device is connected to computer and wmplayer. To manually terminate the wmplayer. Windows Taskbar and click on Task Manager. Then click on Image Name to sort the list of processes according to name alphabetically. Locate and highlight wmplayer. End Process button. After a while, the device will install with correct driver, connect and WMDC will sync. If the device still doesnt connect and sync, try to disconnect and reconnect the device again, and kill off any wmplayer. If system is not responding to or takes no action to detect, install connect any plugged in Windows Mobile device and of course WMDC no sync action too, it may be causing by existing wmplayer. To fix the issue, open Task Manager taskmgr in Start Search, and search for any wmplayer. Re connect the Windows Mobile device, and Windows Mobile Device Center should connect and sync properly.