Fixing WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Center) error 0x80883001

I have been successfully using my Palm Treo 750 (running WM6) with Windows 7 for a few months.

One day I got the following error message:

“There has been a change made on your server that requires you to re-synchronize all items on your device. Please perform a manual sync.”

Support code: 0x80883001

To my knowledge, I hadn’t made ANY changes to my server. Not wanting to resynchonise all items, I Googled for possible solutions.

The most common solution was to toggle Advanced Network Functionality in “Connections | USB to PC”, but that didn’t work for me.

What did work was to modify the Mobile Device Settings in Windows Mobile Device Center

1. Reboot my PC and the Treo.
2. Run “Windows Mobile Device Center” (not wmdc.exe) from Control Panel.
   To see the “Windows Mobile Device Center” icon in Control Panel, change from “View by: Category” to “View by icon”
3. Plug in the Treo using the USB cable
4. Wait “Windows Mobile Device Center” to connect
5. Under “Mobile Device Settings”, choose “Change content sync settings”
6. Disable E-mail, Notes and Microsoft Office OneNote
   
7. For each of the other categories (Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Mobile Favorites), click on “Sync Settings” and then [Save] each one