Windows Mobile Device Center is a synchronization software program developed by Microsoft, and the successor to ActiveSync.

For complete functionality including synchronization of tasks, calendar data, contacts, email etc.

with Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Mobile Device Center needs to be downloaded, which includes the additional drivers as well.

However, synchronizing via the serial port is not activated by default, and it is required that the user alters the Windows Registry to do so.

[8] Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 came with Remote Tools, that could be used to edit the registry of a tethered mobile device, and view the running processes.