Nokia Software Updater Comaptiblity With Vista

Yesterday i made a blog post stating that you needed the latest N95 Firmware (V20) to play N-Gage Games, and in order to do that you need to update it via Nokia Software Updater, however the program would not run in vista.

Well ive found a little "trick" to get the program to run and work perfectly fine windows vista.

Windows Vista comes with a "compatiblity mode", this is where if the program you want to use doesn't work in vista (in general) this mode switches it to Windows XP Service Pack 2 - where the program should run fine.

This "compatible mode" should not be used all the time as it can cause conflicts with other programs, however for a program that is not used often this mode can be useful.

Heres a step by step guide on how to get Nokia Software Updater working in Windows Vista:

1) Download And Install Nokia Software Updater (from this website).
2) The Program automically opens and should give you the error, just click OK and close the program.
3) Go To The Program (Start - All Programs - Nokia Software Updater) and right click the program and click on properties (as shown in this picture).
4) Click on the "compatiblity tab", then tick the compatiblity mode and select "Windows XP Service Pack 2" (as shown in this picture).
5) Click OK and run the program as normal.

After doing all this the program does run in Vista - it detects the phone and downloads the update - it also installs the firmware, HOWEVER - during my firmware update on my N95 the nokia detect that is used to detect the phone via USB Failed and stopped working correctly,and closed, but the program was still running and still staying my phone is being update after waiting for 10 minutes my phone switched off, i unplugged the USB cable and turned my phone on and it worked, but i was still running the old V12 Firmware. But the program was still saying it was updating the phone.

So in general, the program does run HOWEVER there is a high chance of it crashing and not updating your phone or bricking your phone and making it unusable. This is due to the program not being supported on Windows Vista Operating Systems , so its better to use this program on a standard windows xp machine or just wait until the software works with vista machines.