In my previous post I said that Microsoft broke Windows Mobile Device Center is Windows 10. This is true, but there is somewhat of a workaround.
First off, if you use WMDC regularly and you’re using Windows 10, make your life easier and run Win 7 in a virtual machine and use it there.
I saw this tip on getting WMDC running on Win 10 at a Microsoft tech support site.
Click on Start, then type “Services” and launch the services application. Scroll down to the “Window Mobile-2003 based device connectivity” service:
Double click on this and click on the “Log On“ tab at the top of the screen.
Click on the “Local System account” button and turn on the “Allow service to interact with desktop” check box. Apply these setting and go back to the “General” tab and make sure the service is running, then exit the application.
Now click on Start, type in “Mobile Device Manager”, right click on the app and pin it to your task bar. Click on the round green icon in the task bar and WMDC should start.
Put your reader into a dock that’s connected to your PC with a USB cable; you should hear the connection sound. If you hear a loud beep and get a synchronization error, WMDC has crashed. Remove the reader from the dock and restart WMDC. If it doesn’t start, check the log on options in the services app again.
If you do hear the connection sound but WMDC shows “Not Connected”, double click on My PC and you should see your reader in the Devices and drives section:
If you double click on the device you’ll see its file system and you’ll be able to copy files to and from it with Windows File Manager.
It’s not perfect solution, but if you have some quick copying to do, it may help.