I recently bought a Sony Ericsson S500i Mobile telephone. Since I was keen to synchronize my address book with the telephone, I tried to install the Sony Ericsson PC-Suite.
It would get about three quarters of the way through the installation and then just hang. I even left it for a couple of hours, in case there was something going on that was very slow. There wasn’t.
After several attempts at installation and several system restores of my Windows XP PC, I was getting somewhat frustrated.
Eventually I found the solution. The readme file for the PC-Suite states that Internet Explorer must be installed. This is actually an understatement. It requires Internet Explorer to be set as the default browser, certainly during installation.
It amazes me that:
- the combination of Sony and Ericsson are incapable of writing standalone software that does note require Internet Explorer for installation
- The software that they write is sufficiently untested that it just hangs
- The PC-Suite installation fails to report a requirement or its own error
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